Direction: Write the letter of the correct answer on the blank provided before each number.
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1.. The earth is closest to the sun at
A. Perihelion B. Aphelion
C.. Apogee
D. Perigee
2. What do you call the point of the Earth's orbit that is farthest away from the sun?
A Aphelion
B. Equinox
C. Perihelion
D. Solstice
3. During Summer, the days are
A. shorter than the nights
C. the same length as the night
B. longer than the nights
D. none of the above
4. In what direction does the sun set?
A. North
C. East
B. West
D. South
5. Which among the following causes the changes in seasons?
A. Sun's rays
C. Phases of the moon
B. Earth's tilt
D. None of the above
6. During Winter, the days are
A. shorter than the nights
C the same length as the night
B. longer than the nights
D. none of the above
7. 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.
8. Earth's seasons caused by which of the following?
A. The varying amount of sunspot activity
B. The rotation of the earth during 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 path as Earth revolves around the sun
9. When it is summer in Southern Hemisphere, which of the following best describes the tilting of the Earth in the
Northern Hemisphere?
A. towards the sun
C. towards or away from the sun
B. away from the sun
D. Neither toward or away from the moon
10 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 because the Earth is stationary directing its rays to Northern hemisphere always.
D. Seasons change because direct rays of the Sun shift from one hemisphere to the other as the Earth
goes around the Sun.
11 Why do we experience changing seasons?
I Because of the 23.5 degrees tiltof the Earth from its axis
II. Because of the revolution of the Earth on its orbit
II. Because of the rotation of the earth on its axis.
A. I only
B. Il only
C. III only
D. I, II and III​