Unit Two
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| What is the Solar System? | A sun and all the bodies that revolve around it
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| What is a Planet? | A large body that does not generate it’s own light
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| What is a Dwarf Planet? | A smaller clasifycation of planet
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| What former planet was recientlly reclasifyed as a dwarf planet? | Pluto
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| What is another name for our moon? | satellite
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| What is earth's position in the solar system | 3rd of 8 planets form the Sun
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| How many miles does it take for the Earth to orbit around the sun? | 93 million miles
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| What is the Earth's path around the sun called? | elliptical
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| How far is the moon from earth? | 240,000 miles
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| What fraction of the earth's size is the moon? | 1/4
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| How many days does it take for the moon to orbit the earth? | 29.5 days
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| What is Solar Energy? | refers to the fact that most of the earth’s energy comes from the sun in the form of light and heat
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| What is rotation? | the “spinning” of the earth on it’s axis
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| What is Revolution? | the movement of the Earth around the sun every 365 ¼ days
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| What does tilt mean? | Refers to the fact that the Earth’s axis is not straight up and down but is “tilted” 23 ½ degrees
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| What is the Tropic Region? | regions of low latitude (or near the equator) that receive a lot of solar energy all year
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| What are the Polar Regions? | areal of high latitude (near the north and south poles) that receive little sunlight
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| What is the Solstice? | the two days when the earth’s tilt is at it’s greatest angle toward or away form the sun
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| What is the Equinox? | Earths poles are not pointed at the sun but are exactly 90 degrees in relation to the sun
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
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