Earth's Place in Space

During midday, your shadow will be its longest.

• True

• False

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NGSS.5-ESS1-2

One full rotation of the Earth occurs in 24 hours.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What causes seasons on Earth?

• Earth's distance from the Sun

• Earth's rotation

• Earth's tilted axis

• Earth's gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Why do the Northern and Southern Hemisphere have opposite seasons

• The Earth is tilted on its axis and:

  when one hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun and the other one is tilted away from the Sun.

• The Earth is tilted on its axis and:

  one hemisphere moves closer to the sun in the summer and the other hemisphere moves further away in the winter.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Earth's tilted axis causes the distance Earth is from the Sun to change.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The sunlight of countries near the Equator are less affected by the tilting of the axis

• True

• False

The Sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The Earth's axis is tilted at an angle of ______.

• 90 degrees

• 45 degrees

• 53.2 degrees

• 23.5 degrees

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

If it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?

• Winter

• Summer

• Spring

• Fall

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

In the winter, the Sun appears ________ in the sky.

• Higher

• Lower

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1