Rotation or Revolution
How the earth travels around the sun.
What is revolution?
The imaginary line that runs horizontally across the center of the Earth.
What is the equator?
Where is the sun located.
What is the center of our solar system?
This is why we have seasons.
What is the tilt of the earth?
At 2:00 p.m. a shadow is long or short?
What is long?
The earth spinning on its axis.
What is rotation?
Imaginary line that runs vertically through the poles of the Earth.
What is the axis?
The sun is considered what.
What is a star?
In this hemisphere we have summer in June and winter in December.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
At noon shadows are long or short?
What is short?
This takes 24 hours.
What is rotation?
Appears to be circular. Explains why are summers are hot.
What is direct sunlight?
True or false, The sun moves.
What is false?
In this hemisphere summer is in December and winter is in June.
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
Cities near this location have close to 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night all year long.
What is the equator?
This takes 365.25 days.
What is revolution?
Appears to be an oval. Explains why it is cold in the winter.
What is indirect sunlight?
True or False. The sun is 1.3 million times larger than the Earth.
What is true?
The shortest day of the year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
At this location there is 24 hours of day and 24 hours of night during the year.
What is the North or South Pole?
This is responsible for the days and night.
What is rotation?
The force pulling all things to the center of the Earth
What is gravity?
This makes the sun appear to move.
What is the earth's rotation?
The longest day of the year.
What is the Summer Solstice?
Spring and Fall are called these instead of Solstice.
What are Equinoxes?