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Which month has the most hours of daylight?

• March

• June

• September

• December

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Does the number of hours of daylight on March 20th change over 1000 years?

• Yes

• No

• Yes but only by a minute or two

• Yes it changes by an hour or more.

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What is it called when the Earth moves on its axis once a day?

• Revolution

• Rotund

• Rotation

• Rigatoni

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What is it called when Earth does a complete circle around the sun?

• Revolution

• Rotund

• Rotation

• Rigatoni

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If you were going to draw a model of day and night, what celestial objects would you need to include?

• A lamp and a sphere

• The Sun, the Earth and the Moon

• The Sun and the Moon

• The Sun and the Earth

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The moon can be seen from Earth

• Only at nighttime

• Only in the day

• Sometimes at night and sometimes at day

• Anytime at night and anytime in the day

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What causes seasons on Earth?

• The Earth's tilt causes the side that is pointing towards the sun to have summer.

• The Earth is closer to the sun in the summer and farther from the sun in the winter.

• The Earth's axis changes the degree of tilt which causes the seasons.

• The Earth orbits the sun in a day.

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Why did ancient peoples look at the sky and pay attention to the patterns they found there?

• They thought the stars were pretty

• They used them to help with agriculture and migration.

• They used them to tell them who to marry.

• They didn't care about them at all.

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When it is summer in California, what season is it in New Zealand?

• Spring

• Summer

• Fall

• Winter

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Polaris is...

• A brand of car

• The name of the North Star

• A city in Alaska

• What the Inuit call the North Pole