Seasons
These days have equal hours of daylight and darkness.
What are Equinox
If the Earth had no tilt, we would no longer have?
What are seasons
When the sun shines at a maximum in one hemisphere and a minimum in the other.
What is solstice?
When does the Southern Hemisphere experience the coldest weather?
When the Southern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun.
The type of orbit the Earth makes around the sun.
What is elliptical?
Earth's sits at a ______ angle
What is 23.5?
Name the moon phase that follows a full moon.
What is waning gibbous?
Due to the Earth’s axis, the hemisphere leaning towards sun has _____ days.
What is longer/hotter?
About how many days after a full moon does a new moon occur?
What is 14?
In the extreme ends of the hemisphere, the sun never fully sets during the summer. This is referred to as
What is Midnight Sun?
If the speed of the Earth's rotation changed what would it affect?
The length of days/nights
This phase of the moon follows the full moon phase.
What is waning gibbous?
The reason we don't have an eclipse during every new moon or full moon.
What is the moon's orbit is on a tilt so the sun, moon, and Earth only line up twice a year for an eclipse?
The number of moon phases.
What is 8?
The rotation of Earth on its axis causes every location on the surface of Earth to move as
Earth turns. The direction does each location moves,
What is counterclockwise or west to east?