Original Project
Weather and Climate I: Basic Elements
The pattern of the rise and fall of air temperature over a day and over a year at any given place on the surface…
Item CL080002: The sun is directly overhead at only one place on earth at a single moment.
A student notices that the sun is directly overhead where she lives. Where else is the sun directly overhead at that moment?
- Everywhere on the sunlit side of the earth
- Everywhere on the sunlit side of the earth that is directly east or directly west of where she lives (same line of latitude), but nowhere else
- Everywhere on the sunlit side of the earth that is directly north or directly south of where she lives (same line of longitude), but nowhere else
- Only where she lives
Answer Choice |
Overall |
Grades |
Gender |
Primary Language |
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| n = 2158 |
6–8 n = 1117 |
9–12 n = 1034 |
Male n = 1042 |
Female n = 1053 |
English n = 1885 |
Other n = 184 |
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| A. | Everywhere on the sunlit side of the earth | 23% | 24% | 21% | 22% | 23% | 22% | 30% |
| B. | Everywhere on the sunlit side of the earth that is directly east or directly west of where she lives (same line of latitude), but nowhere else | 30% | 28% | 33% | 30% | 31% | 30% | 28% |
| C. | Everywhere on the sunlit side of the earth that is directly north or directly south of where she lives (same line of longitude), but nowhere else | 26% | 27% | 24% | 23% | 28% | 26% | 23% |
| D. | Only where she lives | 21% | 21% | 22% | 25% | 18% | 22% | 19% |