Question 1

Which of the following statements is correct?

Accepted Answer

The Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun

Answer

The moon rotates on its axis and rotates around the Earth.

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The Earth revolves on its axis and rotates around the sun.

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The moon rotates around the Earth and the Earth rotates around the sun.

Question 2

What causes the Earth to have day and night?

Accepted Answer

The Earth rotates on its axis

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The Earth revolves around the sun

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The moon revolves around the Earth

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The sun revolves around the Earth

Question 3

Summer days in Austin are hotter than winter days because in the summer….

Accepted Answer

Earth’s northern axis is tilted toward the Sun

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The Sun gives off more energy

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The Earth is closer to the Sun

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The number of sunspots increases

Question 4

What is a year?

Accepted Answer

When the Earth completes 1 revolution around the sun

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When the moon completes 1 revolution around the Earth

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When the Earth completes 1 rotation around the sun

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When the sun completes 1 revolution around the Earth

Question 5

Why doesn’t the sun’s light fall evenly over the Earth?

Accepted Answer

Because the Earth is a sphere

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Because the Earth has an atmosphere

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Because the Earth is too big

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Because the Earth is too far from the sun

Question 6

What happens to the length of day in Texas from March to June and why?

Accepted Answer

It increases because the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun

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It remains the same until the equinox

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It decreases until the solstice

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It increases because the Earth gets closer to the sun

Question 7

When the visible portion of the moon is increasing, the moon is

Accepted Answer

Waxing

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Waning

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Full

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Waning-crescent

Question 8

What moon phase would be viewed at position 6?

Accepted Answer

Waning gibbous

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Waning crescent

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Waxing gibbous

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Waxing crescent

Question 9

Why does the moon go through different phases in the sky?

Accepted Answer

The moon’s different position in the sky relative to the sunlight causes it to appear in different shapes

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The moon’s orbit changes every month allowing the light to expand and contract

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The tilt of Earth’s axis cause the shape of the moon to appear to change

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The moon has an elliptical orbit around the Earth causing its shape to appear to change

Question 10

Which of the following diagrams best shows the relative positions of Earth, the Moon, and the Sun during a lunar eclipse? (Not To Scale)

Accepted Answer

B

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A

Question 11

What object has the greatest effect on the Earth’s ocean tides?

Accepted Answer

The moon

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The sun

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Mars

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Satellites

Question 12

When would you expect the Earth to experience spring tides?

Accepted Answer

During the new and full moons

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Four times each day, at 6 AM, noon, 6 PM, and midnight

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During the 1st and 3rd quarter moons

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During the spring

Question 13

What do scientists look for when trying to identify other planets that may be able to support life?

Accepted Answer

Presence of water, an atmosphere, and proximity to a star

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Presence of water, an atmosphere, and having a tilted axis

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Presence of water, oxygen, and an atmosphere

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Carbon, water, and an atmosphere

Question 14

What governs the motion of the sun, moon, and Earth?

Accepted Answer

Gravity

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Action-Reaction forces

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Inertia

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Obliquity

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