The Earth, Sun, and Moon System Test

What is the backdrop you see when planets appear to move across the sky?

• Other planets

• the sun

• the stars

• the moon

What do you see in the center of the geocentric model?

• Earth

• the moon

• the sun

• a star

Galileo discovered something that supported the heliocentric model?

• The phases of Venus

• the elliptical orbits of planets

• the moon's orbiting of Earth

• the movement of planets in the night sky

What is the Earth spinning on it's axis called?

• rotation

• Revolution

• elliptical

• movement

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is the word that explains when the Earth orbits entirely around the Sun?

• It circles

• Hercules

• phases

• Revolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The stars appear to move from east to west, why?

• because it is nighttime

• the earth is moving everywhere

• because the Earth rotates on it's own axis from the west to the east, thus the stars appear to move from East to West.

• the stars at night seem to move

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

In September, the constellation Hercules can be seen in the sky. Why isn't Hercules visible in the sky in March?

• It is a mystery.

• The moon is blocking it.

• In March, the Sun is blocking the view of hercules.

• Hercules in not a constellation.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is the imaginary line that runs through the Earth's pole on it's

• revolution

• axis

• rotation

• orbit

Why does the Earth have seasons?

• The positions of the Earth, sun, and moon do not change.

• The moon has a gravitational pull that forces it.

• Because it continually moves around it's moon.

• It's axis is tilted as it Revolves around the sun.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The sun is directly overhead at the equator during what two times of a year?

• Winter and summer equinox.

• Spring equinox and the fall equinox.

• When a star passes by.

• The sun only is overhead one time a year in the winter.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1