Item CL119002: For a place where the sun is directly overhead in the middle of the day in late December, the sun would not pass directly overhead at any time in February.
The sun is directly overhead in the middle of the day at a certain place in late December. When would the sun be directly overhead at that place on a day in February?
- The sun would still pass directly overhead in the middle of the day in February.
- The sun would still pass directly overhead but earlier in the day in February.
- The sun would still pass directly overhead but later in the day in February.
- The sun would not pass directly overhead at any time of day in February.
- Distribution of Responses
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- Students Responding Correctly
Group | Correct | Total | Percent |
---|---|---|---|
Overall | 363 | 2169 | 17% |
Grades | |||
6–8 | 210 | 1246 | 17% |
9–12 | 151 | 914 | 17% |
Gender | |||
Male | 170 | 1026 | 17% |
Female | 184 | 1095 | 17% |
Primary Language | |||
English | 314 | 1884 | 17% |
Other | 34 | 210 | 16% |
- Disciplinary Core Ideas
- ESS1.A Patterns of the apparent motion of the sun, the moon, and stars in the sky can be observed, described, predicted, and explained with models.
ESS1.B The orbits of Earth around the sun and of the moon around Earth, together with the rotation of Earth about an axis between its North and South poles, cause observable patterns. These include day and night; daily changes in the length and direction of shadows; and different positions of the sun, moon, and stars at different times of the day, month, and year.