4th Grade NYS Science Test Review #3
Quiz
What makes night and day?
- The sun moves around the Earth
- The moon moves around the Earth
- The Earth revolves around the sun
- The Earth rotates (spins) around once every 24 hours.
What makes the seasons?
- Earth spins on its axis.
- Earth is closer to the sun in summertime and farther away in winter.
- Earth leans towards the sun in summertime and leans away from the sun in winter.
What time of year has the longest days and the shortest nights?
- Summer
- Winter
- Fall
- Spring
What is the longest day of the year?
- Winter Solstice
- Spring Equinox
- Summer Solstice
- Autumnal Equinox
What's the shortest day of the year?
- Winter Solstice
- Spring Equinox
- Summer Solstice
- Autumnal Equinox
What time of year has the longest nights?
- Summer
- Spring
- Fall
- Winter
What is an Equinox?
- The day every year when days are longest.
- The day every year when nights are longest.
- The two days every year when day and night are equal in length.
What's Winter Solstice?
- The day every year when days are longest.
- The day every year when nights are longest.
- The two days every year when day and night are equal in length.
What's Summer Solstice?
- The day every year when days are longest.
- The day every year when nights are longest.
- The two days every year when day and night are equal in length.
Why is it colder at Earth’s north and south poles and hotter at the equator?
- The sun hits straight at the equator, so a lot of solar energy is absorbed. The sun hits the poles at an angle that lets a lot of the energy pass by.
- The sun hits the equator at an angle, so a lot of solar energy is reflected back.
- Snow and ice at the poles absorbs solar energy and makes it warmer.
What is revolution?
- A planet spinning around its axis.
- A planet moving in a circle around the sun, or a moon circling around a planet.
- A planet and moon circling around each other.
What's rotation?
- A planet spinning around its axis.
- A planet moving in a circular path around the sun, or a moon circling around a planet.
- A planet and moon circling around each other.
What is an orbit?
- A moon.
- The imaginary line through a planet's north and south poles
- The circular path a planet follows while revolving is called the orbit.
What makes a year?
- The Earth rotates (spins) around its axis.
- The Moon travels around the Earth in one year.
- A year is how long it takes the Earth to orbit around the Sun once.
How long does it take the Moon to orbit the Earth once?
- About 28 days (almost a month)
- 365 days.
- 24 hours
Why does the Moon change shape?
- The Sun moves to a different angle in the sky.
- The Moon has night and day just like the Earth.
- The Moon orbits the Earth. As it does, the Sun hits it from different angles. The bright side is the side the sun is shining on.
What's an eclipse?
- When the sun blocks out the Earth
- When the Moon blocks out the Sun, or the Earth makes a shadow on the Moon.
- When the sun goes down.
Why does the sun seem to move across the sky?
- Because the sun orbits the Earth.
- Because the Earth and the Sun are revolving around each other.
- The sun is not really moving across the sky. It just looks like it because the Earth is rotating (spinning)
Why does the Moon shine?
- Because the Moon is a star.
- Because the Moon gives off light.
- Because the Sun's light is reflecting off of the Moon.
What is a star?
- A gigantic ball of burning gases.
- A planet
- A moon
What is the sun?
- a planet
- a moon
- a comet
- a star
What is the solar system?
- The Sun
- The Sun, together with the planets, asteroids, comets, the dwarf planets, and the stars.
- The Sun, together with the eight planets orbiting the sun, plus the asteroid belt, some comets and dwarf planets and some other objects.
- The Sun, the Moon, and Earth
How many planets are there in the solar system?
- Nine
- Eight
- Seven
- The Sun, the Moon, and Earth
What sentence do we use to remember the eight planets of our solar system?
- My Mother Just Served Us Nachos
- My Excellent Mother Served Us Some Nachos
- My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos
What's the planet closest to the sun?
- Mars
- Venus
- Earth
- Mercury
What's the largest planet in our solar system?
- Saturn
- Earth
- Mercury
- Jupiter
What are the eight planets of our solar system?
- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune