Earth Sun Moon System Summative Review

Tides are caused by ___________

• wind

• gravitational pull of moon

• waves gravitation toward land

• rain

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How long does it take the moon to complete one revolution around Earth?

• 1 day

• 27.3 days ( about a month)

• 2 weeks (half a month)

• 365 days (a year)

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Which is not true about the Moon.

• The Moon makes its own light.

• The Moon is always 1/2 lit.

• The Moon's orbit around Earth and its rotation on its axis are moving at the same rate, so we only see one side of the Moon.

• The Moo's light comes from the reflection of the Sun's light.

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Why do we experience the changing of the season on the earth?

• distance from the sun

• rotation of the earth

• change in solar output

• tilt of the earth's axix

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Name the moon phase

• First Quarter

• Last Quarter

• New Moon

• Full Moon

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Name the moon phase that would come AFTER this moon.

• waning crescent

• waxing crescent

• waning gibbous

• waxing gibbous

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Movement of Earth around the sun.

• Rotation

• Revolution

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force that keeps each planet in its path around the Sun

• pull

• push

• gravity

• axis

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time it takes for a planet to complete one revolution around the Sun

• day

• month

• year

• century

Earth has day and night

• because it should

• it revolves around the sun

• its axis is tilted

• it rotates on it's axis

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