Space Science Summative Review

What is the position of the Earth, the sun, and the moon during a full moon?

• sun, earth, moon

• moon, sun, earth

• sun, moon, earth

• mercury, sun, earth,

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When it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, it is winter in the

• equator

• Northern Hemisphere

• Southern Hemisphere

• Eastern Hemisphere

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In June, there are fewer hours of daylight and less direct sunlight in the ___.

• Southern Hemisphere

• Northern Hemisphere

• Equator

• Both poles

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Each of the two days of the year when neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun.

• winter solstice

• equinox

• summer solsice

• rotation

Earth has ___ because its axis is tilted as it revolves around the sun.

• seasons

• rotation

• revolution

• eclipses

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Earth's ___ causes day and night.

• calendar

• rotation

• year

• revolution

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Earth's orbit is a slightly elongated circle, or an ____

• ellipse

• eclipse

• year

• rotation

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One revolution around the sun is called a(n) __

• fall equinox

• calendar

• year

• rotation

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What would happen if the Earth took longer to rotate?

• a year would be shorter

• a year would be longer

• a day would be shorter

• a day would be longer

How do the temperatures at Earth's equator compare with the temperatures at the poles?

• there is less variation

• there is more variation

• it is warmer at the poles

• it is colder at the equator

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