Patterns on Earth Review

What time of day is it according to the shadow model?

• Morning

• Exactly noon

• Afternoon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When the Earth is in Location 2, the sun shines directly on the Northern Hemisphere. What season is it there?

• Fall

• Summer

• Spring

• Winter

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Read carefully the following statement. Then, select the best answer.

It is a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock.

• Fault

• Trench

• Cliff

Read carefully the following statement. Then, select the best answer.

It is something that appear or occurs again and again in the same way.

• A pattern

• A cliff

• A fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

• A

• B

• C

• D

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

• Student 1 only

• Students 2 and 4 only

• Student 2 only

• Students 1 and 3 only

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Read carefully the following statement. Then, select the best answer.

It is a large area of raised flat land that extends over a great distances.

• A cliff

• A plateau

• A canyon

What is this?

• A canyon

• A butte

• A plateau

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2