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Weather and Climate II: Seasonal Differences
As the earth moves around the sun over the course of a year, the orientation of earth’s axis with respect to t…
Item CL121002: Changes in the angle between earth’s axis and the sun cause the amount of time that sunlight can reach a place on earth to change over the course of a year.
What causes the number of hours of daylight a place receives to change over the course of a year?
- Changes in the moon’s path around the earth cause the moon to block sunlight from reaching a place for different amounts of time over the course of a year.
- Changes in how fast the earth turns on its axis cause a place to spend different amounts of time in sunlight over the course of a year.
- Changes in the earth’s distance from the sun cause the amount of time that sunlight can reach a place to change over the course of a year.
- Changes in the angle between earth’s axis and the sun cause the amount of time that sunlight can reach a place to change over the course of a year.
Answer Choice |
Overall |
Grades |
Gender |
Primary Language |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 3261 |
6–8 n = 1709 |
9–12 n = 1538 |
Male n = 1549 |
Female n = 1607 |
English n = 2772 |
Other n = 345 |
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| A. | 17% | 18% | 16% | 17% | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| B. | 25% | 27% | 22% | 25% | 24% | 25% | 23% |
| C. | 26% | 27% | 25% | 25% | 28% | 26% | 27% |
| D. | 32% | 28% | 37% | 33% | 32% | 32% | 32% |