Earth and Space Quiz

Which of the following are created by the earth’s rotation on its axis?

• winter

• day and night

• summer

Earth turns around an imaginary line called a(n)____________________________.

• hemisphere

• axis

• orbit

• Revolution

What do you need in order for an object to make a shadow?

• Sunlight and a shadow.

• An object, sunlight, and a surface for the shadow to be cast on.

• Only an object.

• Only a surface.

When one object moves around another in space it ____________________________.

• axis

• revolves

• rotates

• orbit

When things turn like a top, they ___________________________.

• revolve

• rotate

• axis

• gravity

When the moon moves around Earth one time, it is one complete _________________.

• hemisphere

• orbit

• gravity

• revolution

What causes the length and position of a shadow to change?

• The object making the shadow moves and grows.

• The sun moves around, which causes the length and position of a shadow to change.

• The earth’s rotation causes the sun’s angle on an object to cause the length and position of the shadow to change.

• A shadow’s length and position stay the same all day long.

What is the movement that causes night and day?

• The Earth rotating on its axis.

• The Sun rotating on its axis.

• The Earth is making a revolution around the sun.

• The sun is making a revolution around the Earth.

A force that pulls objects in space toward each other is ______________________.

• gravity

• orbit

• revolution

• axis

The path that one object takes around another object in space is its _____________.

• axis

• gravity

• orbit

• Hemisphere