Seasons

What is the Equator?

• an imaginary line that runs from the top to the bottom of the Earth

• an imaginary line that divides the Earth into different seasons

• an imaginary line that wraps around the center of the Earth

• an imaginary line that shows the path of the sun's light

Rotation means to ______?

• to turn

• to roll

• to move upward

• to move downward

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Orbit means to ______?

• • to spin on an axis

• to change seasons

• to move around something else

• to have things move around you

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An axis is ______?

• • an invisible line that something spins around

• • an invisible line that an object travels around

• • an invisible line that shows where the sun is shining

• • an invisible line that wraps around the center of the Earth

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What do people have to do at the start of daylight savings time?

• Move their clocks back an hour

• Move their clocks forward an hour

• Move their clocks forward a day

• Move their clocks back a day

Daylight savings time aims to _________?

• • give us more hours of daylight

• • give us more hours in the night to sleep

• • make summers longer and winters shorter

• • make winters longer and summers shorter

How is an axis related to orbit?

• They are both related to the spinning of any object.

• They are both related to the pull of gravity on anything in space.

• • An orbit is the angle at which something rotates, but the axis is the path something takes around another object.

• • The axis is the angle at which something rotates, but orbit is the path something takes around another object.

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Why are the Earth's rotations important?

• • They shift the pull of gravity and Earth's orbit.

• • They control many aspects of weather, climate, night and day.

• They shift the axis that we rotate around.

• They control the tides through interactions with the moon.

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Which of the following is not caused by Earth’s movement?

• The date

• Seasons

• Day and Night

• Years

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What does orbit mean?

• • to follow a path

• • to move in space

• • to travel between planets

• • to move around one thing

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