1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Earth SeasonsShadowsSunPlanets

2. Question Column 1-100 How long does it take for the Earth to make one rotation?

3. Answer Column 1-100 24 hours or 1 day

4. Question Column 1-200 Why does the Moon and Sun appear to move across the sky?

5. Answer Column 1-200 The Earth Rotates on its axis

6. Question Column 1-300 Where on Earth is the most direct sunlight?

7. Answer Column 1-300 Equator

8. Question Column 1-400 Because the moon orbit the Earth, what did you notice about the moon?

9. Answer Column 1-400 The moon changes shape each day.

10. Question Column 1-500 What are two characteristics of a meteor?

11. Answer Column 1-500 It is made of rocks and it orbits a planet.

12. Answer Column 2-100 Summer, fall, winter, spring

13. Question Column 2-100 Name the seasons in order beginning with summer?

14. Question Column 2-200 Look at the diagram from the front of your midterm. If Earth is in position D, what position will it be in 3 months?

15. Answer Column 2-200 Position A - FALL

16. Question Column 2-300 If it is fall and the Earth revolves for 6 months, what season will it be?

17. Answer Column 2-300 spring

18. Question Column 2-400 Describe the orientation of the Northern Hemisphere in the winter and summer.

19. Answer Column 2-400 Summer – Northern Hemp. Is angled toward the sun. Winter – Northern Hemp. Is angled away from the sun.

20. Question Column 2-500 What 2 things cause the seasons?

21. Answer Column 2-500 Tilt of the Earth and the revolution around the sun.

22. Question Column 3-100 What causes a shadow?

23. Answer Column 3-100 Objects that block the sun’s rays from hitting the Earth

24. Question Column 3-200 When are the shadows the shortest?

25. Answer Column 3-200 Mid Day

26. Question Column 3-300 When are shadows the longest?

27. Answer Column 3-300 Early morning or Dawn and evening or Dusk

28. Question Column 3-400 Why do the size of shadows change?

29. Answer Column 3-400 Rotation of the Earth

30. Question Column 3-500 If you went to each planet and stuck an American Flag in the ground, which planet would have the largest shadow at mid day and which planet would have the smallest shadow at mid day?

31. Answer Column 3-500 Neptune would have the longest shadow Mercury would have the shortest.

32. Question Column 4-100 What color is our closest star? What size is our closest star?

33. Answer Column 4-100 Yellow Medium

34. Question Column 4-200 Why are some stars different colors?

35. Answer Column 4-200 Stars are different temperatures White – hot, yellow – medium, Red & Orange - cooler

36. Question Column 4-300 If a star was closer to Earth than our sun, what would it look like?

37. Answer Column 4-300 It may be hotter: White is hotest, Yellow is average, and Red and orange are cooler AND It could be bigger and Brighter

38. Question Column 4-400 What does a moon orbit? What does an asteroid orbit? What does a comet orbit?

39. Answer Column 4-400 Earth or planet Sun

40. Question Column 4-500 What are three characteristics of a planet?

41. Answer Column 4-500 No asteroids in its orbit. Revolves around the sun Shape is spherical

42. Question Column 5-100 What causes the planets to orbit the Sun?

43. Answer Column 5-100 Gravity

44. Question Column 5-200 If it takes the Earth 365 days to revolve around the sun, which planet would have the next longest trip around the sun? Why?

45. Answer Column 5-200 Mars, because it has the next longest orbit around the sun

46. Question Column 5-300 On what planet would you be the oldest? Why?

47. Answer Column 5-300 Mercury because it orbits the sun every 88 days.

48. Question Column 5-400 What would the sun look like on these planets (compared to what it looks like on Earth)? Mercury? Saturn?

49. Answer Column 5-400 Mercury – Larger and Brighter Saturn – Smaller and dimmer

50. Question Column 5-500 Draw a Solar System. 1. label the planets and their orbits, 2. the Earth’s moon’s orbit.

51. Answer Column 5-500 Be sure the moon orbits the Earth

52. Answer Column 5-500 Deer gives carbon dioxide. Humans get oxygen.