Human Scatterplot:

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Human Scatterplot The Sun Earth Moon System
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1. The Earth

• Rotates around the sun
• Revolves around the sun
• Spins around the sun

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2. One rotation of earth lasts

• 365 days
• B. 1 month
• C. 24 hours

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3. When the earth is closest to the sun in it
orbit, it is

1. summer.
2. winter.
3. It depends if you are in the northern or southern
   hemisphere.

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4. The fall equinox

1. happens when the sun shines directly on the
   Tropic of Cancer.
2. happens when the sun shines directly on the
   equator.
3. happens when the sun shines directly on the
   Tropic of Capricorn.

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5. One half of the moon is

1. illuminated twice each month.
2. always illuminated.
3. illuminated once each month.

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6. A solar eclipse happens when

1. the moon blocks the light from the sun to the
   earth.
2. the earth casts a shadow on the moon.
3. the sun casts a shadow on the earth.

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7. A lunar eclipse happens only

1. during quarter moon.
2. during a new moon.
3. during a full moon.

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8. The umbra is

• A. the area where a tide can be found.
• the area on earth where a total solar eclipse is
  experienced.
• the area where the sun shines the brightest
  during mid day.

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9. The waning phases of the moon

1. appear from earth as being illuminated on the
   left side of the moon.
2. appear from earth as being illuminated on the
   right side of the moon.
3. are unable to be seen from earth.

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10. Tides are caused

• by the gravitational pull of the sun and moon on
  the earth, but mostly by the suns pull.
• by the gravitational pull of the sun and moon on
  earth, but mostly by the moons pull.
• C. by the gravitational pull of the sun on earth.