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Grade 5 Planetary Motion
Every object revolves around the Sun in a path called a(n)                .
  1. ellipse
  2. orbit
  3. revolution
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
Change of season is mainly due to the revolution of Earth.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
What Earth does every 24 hours on its axis.
  1. orbit
  2. revolution
  3. rotate
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
What is Earth's complete path of travel around the Sun?
  1. hemisphere
  2. revolution
  3. rotate
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
One year on Earth lasts 365 days.
Which of these definitions could be used for one year?
  1. The time it takes for Earth to go around the Sun once.
  2. The time it takes for the Moon to go around Earth 12 times.
  3. The time for Earth to spin once on its axis.
  4. The time for the Moon to complete all of its phases.
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
Earth takes 365.25 days to orbit the Sun. Which of the following is a consequence of this fact?
  1. February has 28 days instead of 30.
  2. The calendar has 365 days every year.
  3. An extra day is added every four years.
  4. An extra week is added every four years.
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
This word means to spin on an axis.
  1. rotation
  2. revolution
  3. orbit
  4. gravity
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
When the North Pole is tilted toward the Sun, it is                 in the Northern Hemisphere.
  1. summer
  2. winter
  3. spring
  4. fall
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
               is the spinning of a planet on its axis.
  1. Revolution
  2. Rotation
  3. Orbit
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
The Moon casts a shadow on Earth during a(n)
  1. lunar eclipse.
  2. new moon.
  3. phase.
  4. solar eclipse.
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
Large bodies that revolve around the Sun are called             planets             .
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
The rotational period of Earth is 24 hours.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
When one object passes trough the shadow of another it is a(n)                .
  1. eclipse
  2. crater
  3. axis
  4. reflection
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
The path an object takes around the Sun is called                .
  1. an universe
  2. a nebulae
  3. an orbit
  4. a star
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
The path Earth takes as it moves around the Sun in space:            orbit            
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
The movement of Earth around the Sun approximately every 365 days:
             revolution             
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
One evening as it is getting dark, Alex sits on the front porch and watches the Sun slowly disappear behind the neighbor's house across the street. Which explains this observation?
  1. The Sun's light is reflected by the clouds.
  2. The Sun's light is refracted by the atmosphere.
  3. The Sun moves from west to east each day.
  4. The Sun appears to move due to Earth's rotation.
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
What planet spins on its side?
  1. Jupiter
  2. Earth
  3. Uranus
  4. Saturn
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
Sir Isaac Newton's work in the late 1600s convinced people that the Sun, not Earth, was the center of the universe. What scientific term describes this idea?
  1. chaotic universe
  2. geocentric universe
  3. spontaneous universe
  4. heliocentric universe
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
Arden observes a star in the night sky. She looks at the star every hour for five hours and notices that it has moved. Which reason best explains Arden's observation?
  1. Earth is rotating on its axis.
  2. The star is rotating on its axis.
  3. Earth is revolving around the Sun.
  4. The star is revolving around Earth.
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