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Test Covering Standard 1 And 2 Of Earth Space. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

What factors limit the number of eclipses per year?
a) distance between the moon and the Earth
b) tilt of the moon's orbit around the sun
c) distance between the Earth and the Sun
d) tilt of the Earth's axis

Which of the following are true about gravity?
a) it acts on all matter in the universe
b) it can bend light
c) the more mass an object has the greater the gravity
d) all three other options

What angle is the Earth revolving around the sun at?
a) 25.3 degrees
b) 35.5 degrees
c) 23.5 degrees
d) 33.5 degrees

If the sun is bigger than the moon, why does the moon have a greater effect on tides?
a) Sun's gravity doesn't affect water
b) the moon is much closer than the Sun
c) the moon is smaller than the sun that has more mass
d) earth blocks the Sun's gravitational pull

What word describes the rise and fall of the oceans water level?
a) sudden
b) continuous
c) random
d) unpredictable

How many times during a day do high and low tides occur?
a) 1 high tide and 1 low tide
b) 2 high tides and 2 low tides
c) 5 high tides and 5 low tides
d) 2 high tides and 1 low tide

What force is MOST responsible for the ocean tides?
a) earth's gravity
b) sun's gravity
c) moon's gravity
d) earth's revolution

The bulge of water that occurs during hide tides is due to the tug of war between.....
a) the earth and the moon
b) the earth and the sun
c) the earth and Jupiter
d) the sun and the moon

The shortest day of the year is.....
a) winter solstice
b) summer solstice
c) spring equinox
d) autumnal equinox

The tilt of the Earth is responsible for our......
a) day
b) month
c) seasons
d) year

What day of the year does everyone in the entire world have 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness?
a) winter solstice
b) spring equinox
c) summer solstice
d) autumn solstice

How long does it take for the Earth to revolve around the Sun on time?
a) day
b) month
c) year
d) decade

Day and night are due to.....
a) earth's rotation
b) earth's tilted axis
c) earth's revolution
d) the moon orbiting the Earth

The resistance of an object to change (moving objects continue to move, objects at rest stay at rest) is called....?
a) resting point
b) inertia
c) gravity
d) mass

The central and largest body in the solar system is.....
a) the moon
b) Jupiter
c) the Sun
d) Earth

Why do we revolve around the sun?
a) the sun is the largest object in our solar system
b) the sun was the designated center of the universe
c) the sun is the largest thing in the universe
d) the sun revolves around the solar system

As your mass increases with an object , its gravity will......
a) stay the same
b) decrease
c) increase
d) not exist

Which statement is correct about the motion of the planets around the sun?
a) it takes 365 days for the planets to orbit once around the sun
b) each planet's revolutionary period varies due to the size of its orbit
c) the planets travel the same distance around the sun
d) the planets have different sized orbits but take the same amount of time to complete and orbit.

When a solar eclipse occurs, who can see it?
a) anyone in the northern hemisphere
b) anyone in the southern hemisphere
c) anyone at the equator
d) anyone in the path of totality

If the moon were larger, the path of totality during a total solar eclipse would be.....
a) brighter
b) shorter
c) wider
d) faster

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