Quiz #6

Seasons
I-Multiple Choice:

•Choose the letter of the

correct answer.
1. Earth's seasons are caused by
which of the following?
a. the varying amount of sunspot activity
b. the rotation of the Earth during a 24 hour day
c. the Earth's orbit about the Sun as an ellipse
rather than a circle
d. the tilt of the Earth's Axis of rotation relative to
the elliptic as Earth revolves around the Sun.
2. What effect does the tilting of
the earth have?
a. When the earth is tilted away from the sun we
have day.
b. When the earth is tilted away from the sun we
have night
c. it changes the angle that the sun strikes the Earth
in different land areas.
d. it causes the Earth to be farther away from the
Sun at different times of the year.
 3. When it is summer in souther
hemisphere, which of the following
best describes the tilting of the Earth
in the Northern hemisphere?
a. towards the Sun
b. away from the sun
c. towards or away from the sun
d. neither toward or away from the moon
 4. Which motion do the arrows in
the diagram represent?

a. Earths rotation
b. Sun's Rotation
c. Suns Revolution
d. Earths revolution
 5. Why do seasons change in
the Philippines?
a. The sun is directed to the southern
hemisphere only
b. the sun is somehow tilted to both Northern
and Southern Hemisphere
c. seasons change bcoz earth is stationary
directing its rays to Northern hemisphere
only.
d. Seasons change because direct rays of the
sun shift feom one hemisphere to the
other as the Earth goes around the sun.
 6. Which part of the earth
experiences summer in December
and colder in June?
a. Northern Hemisphere since sun is tilted
towards it on june and dec.
b. Northern Hemisphere bcoz it receives
direct rays from the Sun in Dec. and lesser
in June.
c. Southern hemisphere because it recieves
direct rays from the sun in dec. and lesser
Solar energy in June
d. Both southern and northern hemisphere
because they receive equal rays directed
from the Sun in Dec. and June.
 7. It is the movement of the
Earth around its axis.
a.Revolution
b.Tripping
c.Rotation
d.Circling
 8. Earth Revolves around the
___________.

a.Axis
b. edge
c. Sun
d.Moon
 9. In June, North pole is tilted
___________ the sun.

a.near
b.away
c.toward
d.above
 10. Temperate Countries
experience changing in season
every ___________.

a.one month
b.two months
c.three months
d.four months
II- Identification:

•Write the correct answer

on your paper
1. Changes in season
happen for how many
days?
2. Earths rotation on its
axis happen for _____
hour/day
3. It is the Movement of
the Earth around the sun.
4. How many seasons do we
have?
5. What season is happening
from March to June in the
temperate countries?
6. In which month is the
North Pole tilted toward the
sun?
 7. Day and night is the
effect of earth's tiltation as
they rotates on its
_________.
8. From Sept. to Dec,
northern Hemisphere
experience __________
season.
9. Planet Earth tilt for
about ______ degrees.
10. Direct rays means it
hit the ground at ____
degrees..