Lesson 3 Solar System Quiz

Half of a sphere, or ball. People use the word to describe one half of Earth

• Hemisphere

• Albedo

• Equinox

• Season

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

When the position of the Sun is exactly over the Equator. When this happens, the hours of daylight and the hours of darkness are about equal almost everywhere on Earth

• solar noon

• equinox

• shadows

• albedo

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A measure of the reflectivity of Earth’s

surfaces.

• seasons

• shadows

• albedo

• solar noon

Bodies in the solar system

orbiting the Sun.

• seasons

• albedo

• heliocentric orbit

• solar energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The flat space, surrounding the Sun

and extending to the edge of the solar system, that

a body orbits.

• Albedo

• Hemisphere

• Orbital Plane

• Solar Noon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

One of the four periods of the year on

Earth (spring, summer, autumn, and winter),

beginning astronomically at the equinox or solstice,

but geographically at different dates depending on

the hemisphere.

• Shadow

• Season

• solar noon

• solstice

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A dark shape that is produced on a surface

when light is blocked by an object.

• solar energy

• seasons

• shadows

• solar noon

Tags

NGSS.5-ESS1-2

A form of energy that reaches our

planet from the Sun.

• solar energy

• solstice

• solar noon

• albedo

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The point at which the Sun is highest

in the sky during the day. (shadow the shortest)

• solar energy

• solar noon

• albedo

• solar eclipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Radiant energy emitted by the Sun.

• Solar Energy

• Solar Noon

• Solar Radiation

• Albedo

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-3