Vocabulary
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Equinoxes
True or False
Other
100
What is Revolution
What is the act of the Earth going around the sun
100
What is Winter Solstice
What is the shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year for Northern Hemisphere
100
When does the Vernal Equinox occur in the Northern hemisphere
What is Spring time, March 21
100
True or False:
The Earth rotates around the sun
What is False: the Earth revolves around the sun.
100
Why do places near the equator have about the same temperature throughout the year?
What is they receive about the same amount of sunlight all year round.
200
What is Rotation
What is the act of the Earth rotating around its axis
200
What is Summer Solstice
What is the longest day and shortest night of the year for the Northern Hemisphere
200
When does the Autumnal Equinox occur in the Northern hemisphere
What is Fall time, September 21
200
Is #3 in the northern hemisphere tilted towards or away from the sun
Away from the sun
200
True or False:
The Northern and Southern hemispheres experience the same seasons at the same time
What is False
300
What is latitude?
Distance from the equator.
300
Name the 4 season in order
Winter, spring, summer, fall.
300
True or False:
When we have an Autumnal Equinox, the Southern hemisphere also is experiencing the Autumnal Equinox
What is False
300
True or False: Places around the Equator experience seasons just like the Northern and Southern hemisphere
What is False
300
What is the degrees of tilt of the Earth
What is 23.5 degrees
400
What is the invisible thing the Earth rotates around
What is axis
400
How does the sun's altitude change throughout the year?
After the winter solstice it climbs higher in the sky each day until summer solstice. Then it sinks lower in the sky each day.
400
When does the Autumnal Equinox occur in the Southern hemisphere
What is Fall time, March 21
400
True or False: The USA is located in the Northeastern hemisphere if the world
What is False. We are located in the Northwestern hemisphere
400
Why are the northern and southern poles always cold
What is because they only receive indirect sunlight from the sun, the sunlight they receive gets to them on an angle
500
What is tilt
What helps cause the seasons and from the Earth tilting toward or away from the sun, it gives us our solstices
500
During our summer, is our hemisphere is tilted_____ from the sun
towards
500
When does the Vernal Equinox occur in the Southern Hemisphere
What is Spring time, September 21
500
True or False:Latitude and longitude mean the same thing.
What is false. Latitude is for North/South (Up/down) and Longitude is for East/West (horizontal)
500
Why is the equator consistently warm
What is because the Equator is always receiving direct sunlight from the sun