Ch.20 L1 Earth's Rotation

The nearest star to Earth

• the sun

• the Milky Way

• the Big Dipper

• the North Star

The path an object follows as it moves around another object

• rotation

• revolution

• orbit

• rotation axis

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The motion of one object around another object is called revolution.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A spinning motion

• Revolution

• Orbit

• Rotation

• Rotation axis

The line on which an object rotates is the

• rotation

• rotation axis

• orbit

• revolution

How does the sun rise

• East to West

• West to East

• North to South

• South to North

What determines when seasons change?

• The tilt of Earth's rotation axis.

• How close Earth is to the sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is a solstice?

• When the sun shines

• A day when Earth's rotation axis if the most towards or away from the sun

• A day when the Earth doesn't rotate.

• A day once a month when the sun doesn't face the Earth.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

An equinox is a day when Earth's rotation axis is leaning along Earth's orbit, neither towards nor away from the sun.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is the equator?

• Longitude and latitude

• A line that divides the Eastern and Western hemispheres

• A line that divides Earth into it's Northern and Southern hemispheres

• A line that is equal to the sun.