Patterns of Earth and Sky Review

Why do we see differen stars and different times of year?

• Earth is in different places in orbit during the year.

• Certain stars only come out during different seasons.

• No one wants to look at the stars during the winter.

• Earth spins once per day.

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How does Earth move?

• Earth only spins.

• Earth goes in orbit around the sun.

• Earth spins each day and orbits the sun each year.

• Earth doesn't move.

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What is the effect of Earth's acis tilted at 24 degrees as it rotates?

• It causes gravity.

• It causes weather and gives us our changes in seasons.

• It provides us with more sunlight.

• It helps plants to grow.

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If Earth spins, why don't we fall off?

• The atmosphere holds us in.

• Earth spins very slowly.

• Gravity pulls on all objects.

• Earth spins so fast, that the forces hold us in.

A student observed the Sun throughout the day over the neighbor’s house. The change the student observed is caused by -

• orbit of Earth around the Sun

• rotation of Earth on its axis

• orbit of the Sun through space

• reflection of the Sun off the Moon

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A student observes the shadows created by a flagpole to collect data on the movement of the sun. The student sketches observations three times throughout the day.

Which direction is the student facing when sketching the observations shown above?

• East

• North

• South

• West

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• Student 1 only

• Students 2 and 4 only

• Student 2 only

• Students 1 and 3 only

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Define: ORBIT

• an attempt to find out about something

• something we observe to be similar over and over again

• to move in a regular path around something

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An arrangement of stars as seen from Earth is a...

• sun

• star

• constellation

How many times does Earth spin on its axis each day?

• once

• twice

• three times

• four times