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Unit 6 Test – Earth’s movements

Questions 1–5
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This diagram is not to scale.

Use one word to describe each of the parts of the diagram labelled 1–5:

1. [1]

2. [1]

3. [1]

4. [1]

5. [1]

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Questions 6–9

Tick the correct answers from the alternatives.

6. What is the diagram above showing?

The universe

The planets

The solar system [1]

7. Which planets take the longest time to revolve around the Sun?

Jupiter

Neptune

Mercury [1]

8. Which planets have a longer ‘year’ than Earth?

Mars and Jupiter

Venus and Mercury

Venus and Jupiter [1]

9. What are asteroids?

Lumps of ice and dirt that orbit the Sun

Rocky objects that orbit the Sun

Small planets that orbit the Sun [1]

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Questions 10–15

Tick the correct answers from the alternatives.

10. What is the body marked X?

Moon

Sun

Earth [1]

11. How long does it take for Earth to travel once around the Sun?

30 days

24 hours

365¼ days [1]

12. What do we call the path the Earth takes to move around the Sun?

orbit

revolution

spinning on axis [1]

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13. What is this movement called?

spinning on axis

revolution

orbit [1]

14. How long does it take Earth to make one complete turn on its axis?

30 days

24 hours

365¼ days [1]

15. What does Earth turning on its axis cause?

summer and winter

spring and autumn

day and night [1]

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Questions 16–20
Fill in the gaps in the sentences. Use words from this list:

astronomer galaxies expanding solar system Sun

16. The universe consists of huge groups of stars called . [1]

17. The Milky Way galaxy contains our . [1]

18. Our star is the . [1]

19. A man named Hubble observed the stars through telescopes. A person that
does this is called an . [1]

20. Hubble made measurements and realised that the universe


is . [1]

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