Axis
What is an Axis?
A) Earth spinning on its axis
B) 24 hour cycle caused by Earth’s rotation
C) The imaginary line that passes through the Earth from North to South pole
D) One complete revolution around the sun approx. 365 days
What is Rotation?
A) Earths path around the sun
B) Earth spinning on its axis
C) The movement of one object around another
D) One complete revolution around the sun approx. 365 days
What is a Day?
A) Earths path around the sun
B) Occurs twice per year, when the noon sun is directly overhead at farthest south or north of the equator ( June 21st and December 21st) * Summer an Winter*
C) The imaginary line that passes through the Earth from North to South pole
D) 24 hour cycle caused by Earth’s rotation
What is Revolution?
A) The movement of one object around another
B) Earths path around the sun
C) a division of the year that is associated with particular weather patterns and daylight hours
D) Earth spinning on its axis
What is year?
A) Occurs twice per year, sun is direct at the equator and neither hemisphere is pointed toward or away from the sun ( around March 21 and around September 23) * means equal day and night. * Spring and Fall*
B) a division of the year that is associated with particular weather patterns and daylight hours
C) 24 hour cycle caused by Earth’s rotation
D) One complete revolution around the sun approx. 365 days
What causes Earths axis to change?
A) Climate change
B) Orbit
C) Seasons
D) Year
What does Earth's rotation do?
A) Creates a diurnal cycle of light and darkness, temperature, and humidity changes.
B) Create the winds
C) Makes the countries rotate
D) Keeps everything in orbit
Why does Earth have 24 hour days?
A) It rotates long periods of time
B) Earth moves slower which makes the day go fast
C) Owing to it's revolution around the Sun, the Earth must rotate approx. 361 to mark a solar day
D) 25/8
How long does it take for a revolution for earth?
A) 365.25 days or one year
B) 245.15 days or three years
C) 110.12 days or six years
D) 119.10 days or ten years
What year was the Earth created?
A) 1300 B.C
B) 6.7 billion years ago
C) 4004 B.C
D) 1902 A.D
How many degree's does Earths axis tilt to?
A) 11.45 degrees
B) 18.95 degrees
C) 6.87 degrees
d) 23.5 degrees
When did Earth started rotating?
A) 4.5 billion years ago
B) 3.2 billion years ago
C) 1.2 billion years ago
D) 6.8 billion years ago
How much does Earth rotate in 24 hours?
A) 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km per hour)
B)1.20 miles per hour (1,100 km per hour)
C) 5,000 miles per hour ( 2,000 km per hour)
D) 3,000 miles per hour (7,000 km per hour)
Why is Earth's revolution so important to us?
A) The revolution of Earth on it's axis is important for setting up the seasons
B) keeps everything out of balanced
C) Moves the planets close to each other
D) Makes Earth move faster
What was the first year on Earth called?
A) Gigayear
B) Ice Age
C) Ancient Mesopotamia
D) Great Depression
How many Years does it take for Earths axis to tilt?
A) 20,000 years
B) 1,000 years
C) 40,000 years
D) 2.1 billion years
What is an example of Earths rotation?
A) Makes earth move
B) Earth rotates on it's own axis
C) Earth moves by itself
D) Earth rotates upward
Who decided that there were 24 hours in a day?
A) Sir Isaac Newton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Hipparchus
D) George Washington
C) Hipparchus
D) George Washington
What direction does Earth's revolution go in?
A) South to North
B) West to East
C) East to North
D) South to West
What year was the Earth formed?
A) 2000 B.C
B) 1.5 billion years ago
C) 1,000 years ago
D) 4.54 billion years ago
Why is Earths axis so important?
A) Helps keep earth balanced
B) Helps use to experience all the seasons, and determine the North Star.
C) Make sure Earth is rotating
D) Keeps Earth in orbit.
How many hours does the Earth rotate?
A) 1 hour, 34 minutes
B) 11 hours, 18 minutes
C) 19 hours, 20 minutes
D) 23 hours, 56 mintues
A) 4 days
B) 8 days
C) 1 day
D) 10 days
How long does it take for the moon to complete on revolution around the Earth?
A) 27 days
B) 15 days
C) 100 days
D) 33 days
How old is Earth?
A) 3.56 billion years old
B) 5,000 years old
C) 2.1 thousand years old
D) 4.543 billion years old