Earth
Earth Continued
Seasons
NH Solstices
Equinox
100
To spin in circles
What is roate
100
23.5 degrees
What is the angle of the axis?
100
Hemisphere
What is half of the earth?
100

longitude

What is measured in degrees north to south of the poles?

100
shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere
What is winter solstice?
200

Counterclockwise

What is Earth's rotation

200
Polaris, The North Star
What is directly above the Earth's North Pole?
200
Summer
When does the N. hemisphere points toward the sun?
200
solstice
What is it when the sun is directly over 23.5 degrees latitude?
200
Two days out of the year when the sun is directly above the earth
What is equinox?
300

Equals 1 Earth day

What is 1 rotation equal to?

300
A revolution
What is the movement around the sun?
300
winter
What is it when the N. Hemisphere points away from the sun?
300

June 20-21

What is summer solstice (date)?

300
12 hours of sun and 12 hours of night?
What is equinox?
400
Earth rotates on it.
What is the axis?
400
1 revolution around the sun
What is one year?
400
Spring or Fall
What is it when the hemisphere is not pointing toward or away from the sun?
400
longest day in the Northern Hemisphere
What is Summer solstice?
400
Spring equinox- March 20-21
What is Vernal equinox?
500

Imaginary line from North to South Pole (through the Earth)

What is the axis?

500
The earth tilts on its axis.
Why are there seasons?
500

latitude

What is the measure of distance away from the equator (east/west)?

500
December 21-22
What is the winter solstice?
500
marks the beginning of Fall
What is Fall Equinox- September 22-23?
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