What is the Earth's rotation?
A) 7 days
B) 15 hours
C) 365 days
D) 24 hours
What is D) 24 hours (or 1 day)
100
When does the longest day of the year occur?
A) Vernal equinox (spring)
B) Summer solstice
C) Winter solstice
D) Autumnal equinox (fall)
What is B) Summer solstice (June 21st or summer in the Northern hemisphere)
100
If you are are in the umbra of an eclipse, what will you see?
A) Partial eclipse
B) Full moon
C) Total eclipse
D) New moon
What is C) Total eclipse
100
Why is there no weather on the moon?
A) There is no atmosphere
B) There is too much Sun
C) One side of the Moon is always without sunlight
D) There isn't enough gravity.
What is A) There is no atmosphere
100
The waxing-crescent moon occurs directly before the____. A) New moon
B) Full moon
C) First-quarter
D) Waning-gibbous
What is C) First-quarter
200
One complete revolution of Earth around the Sun is known as
A) an hour
B) a day
C) a year
D) A season
What is a C) a year
200
Why do people on Earth experience four seasons?
A) Tilted axis of Earth
B) Earth’s revolution
C) Earth’s tilted axis and revolution
D) Earth’s rotation
What is C) Earth's tilted axis and revolution
200
High tides occur ____________.
A) Every 6 hours
B) Every 12 hours
C) Once a month
D) Once a day
What is B) Every 12 hours
200
What are the dark, smooth areas on the moon called? A) Maria
B) Highlands
C) Umbra
D) Penumbra
What is A) Maria
200
The new moon occurs directly before the _____.
A) Waning-gibbous moon
B) Waxing-crescent moon
C) Full moon
D) First-quarter moon
What is B) Waxing-crescent moon
300
The imaginary line that encircles the Earth midway between the North and South poles is the ___________.
A) solstice
B) equator
C) equinox
D) ocean shoreline
What is B) equator
300
When the North pole is tilted toward the sun, it is_____. A) Summer in both hemispheres
B) Winter in both hemispheres
C) Winter in the northern hemisphere
D) Summer in the northern hemisphere
What is D) Summer in the northern hemisphere
300
A lunar eclipse occurs when ________.
A) The sun is between the Earth and Moon
B) The moon is between the Earth and Sun
C) The moon is in the first quarter
D) Earth is between the Sun and Moon
What is D) Earth is between the Sun and Moon
300
Long valleys on the moon are known as _____.
A) Maria
B) Umbra
C) Rilles
D) Highlands
What is C) Rilles
300
What causes the phases of the moon?
A) Earth’s revolution around the sun
B) Earth’s revolution around the moon
C) The moon revolving around the sun
D) The moon revolving around Earth
What is D) The moon revolving around Earth
400
When viewing Earth from above, the Earth is rotating
A) Clockwise
B) From the North to the South
C) Counterclockwise
D) From the South to the North
What is C) Counterclockwise
400
The hemisphere that leans toward the sun has_____.
A) Long days and long nights
B) Long days and short nights
C) Short days and short nights
D) Short days and long nights
What is B) Long days and short nights
400
What do we call the completely dark area of the shadow of the Earth or Moon?
A) Partial eclipse
B) Total eclipse
C) Umbra
D) Penumbra
What is C) umbra
400
True or False?
The moon revolves around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
What is True?
400
Which phase of the moon occurs just before the waxing-gibbous and after the waxing-crescent?
A) Full moon
B) New moon
C) Last quarter moon
D) First quarter moon
What is D) First quarter moon
500
Why does the length of Earth's day and night change?
A) The axis of the moon is tilted
B) Earth rotates from East to West
C) The axis of the moon is straight
D) The axis of the Earth is tilted
D) The axis of the Earth is tilted
500
When are day and night equal all over the world?
A) Summer solstice
B) January 1
C) Winter solstice
D) Vernal Equinox (spring)
What is Vernal Equinox (spring)
500
What is the main cause of tides on Earth?
A) Wind
B) Gravity of the Sun
C) Gravity of Earth
D) Gravity of the Moon
What is D) Gravity of the Moon?
500
What year did Neil Armstrong walk on the moon?
A) 1968
B) 1969
C) 1971
D) 1972
What is B) 1969
500
During which phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse occur?
A) Full moon
B) New moon
C) Last quarter
D) New quarter