7° EARTH'S MOVEMENT (Copia)

UNIT 2 PLANET EARTH
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Subject: Social Science > Geography
Age: 12 - 13

7° EARTH'S MOVEMENT (Copia)

UNIT 2 PLANET EARTH

Earth's Movement

Please match columns

What is solar energy?

trip around the sun

One complete spin of earth on its axis.

What is rotation?

energy from the sun

What os Earth's tilt?

the distance north or south of Earth's equator

What causes day and night?

What is revolution?

As Earth's rotates

it is the inclination of the earth

what is latitude?

How does the rotation explain why day changes into night?

Choose the best option

It takes 24 hours for Earth to spin on its axis

Because of earth's revolution

because it takes 365 days to happen

What factors affect the solar energy Earth receives?

Rotation, tilt and revolution

Rotation, revolution and latitude

Rotation, revolution, tilt and latitude

What is Earth's axis?

an imaginary line around which a planet turns

an imaginary line that divides the earth into two halves

an imaginary line that passes through the poles

How long is the earth's rotation?

365 days

24 hours

12 months

How long is earth's revolution?

60 minutes

24 hours

30 days

3651/4 days

One characteristic of Earth's tilt

it's perfectly straight

it's not perfectly straight

it divides the earth in north and south hemispheres