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Review Questions:
1. What causes day and night? (Earth’s rotation)
2. What are the two things that cause the seasons? (Earth’s revolution around the sun and
the tilt of the Earth’s axis)
3. List the seasons in the order that we experience them. (summer  fall  winter 
spring)
4. In which direction do the planets revolve around the sun? (counter-clockwise)
5. All planets orbit the what? (sun)
6. What is the term for the path that one object takes around another one? (orbit)
7. The moon’s orbit around the Earth takes approximately how long? (one month)
8. When we can see the half of the moon that is completely reflecting the sun’s light, which
phase are we experiencing? (full moon)
9. The moon has three motions: name one of them (it rotates on its axis, it revolves around
the Earth, it also moves around the sun as it orbits the Earth)
10. Name another motion of the moon
11. Name the last motion of the moon
12. What is the difference between waxing and waning? (waxing – appears to be getting
bigger, waning – appears to be getting smaller)
13. What is it called when one body in space blocks the light shining on another body in
space? (eclipse)
14. Which eclipse occurs when the moon casts a shadow on the Earth? (solar)
15. Which eclipse occurs when the moon is completely in the shadow of the Earth? (lunar)
16. What is the central and largest body in our solar system? (sun)
17. Name the inner planets. (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars)
18. How are the materials that make up the inner and outer planets different? (inner planets
are rocky and dense, outer planets are large and gaseous)
19. Name the outer planets. (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
20. What separates the inner and outer planets? (the asteroid belt)
21. Give me a name of a dwarf planet. (Pluto, Eris, Xenos, Ceres)
22. What shape do we use to describe the orbit of the Earth around the sun? (elliptical)