The Earth 1
The Earth 2
Seasons
Rotates, Tilts, and Orbits
Extra
100
How long does it take the Earth to revolve around the Sun?
What is 365 days 6hours 9min
100
A round, three-dimensional object whose surface is the same distance from its center at all points.
What is sphere?
100
The main cause of changes in solar intesity at different locations on Earth throughout the year.
What is earth's tilt?
100
This is the result of the Earth's rotation on its axis.
What is day and night?
100
The amount of Earth that receives sunlight at any given time.
What is 1/2?
200
when is the Sun closest to Earth
What is January 3?
200
The yearly orbit of Earth around the Sun is called its.
What is revolution?
200
Summer
What is June 21/22?
200
These are the 2 reasons we have seasons.
What is the Earth's orbit and the 23 degree tilt of its axis?
200
The cause for the sun appearing to rise and set each day.
What is rotation of the earth?
300
23.5 degrees
What is earth's axis is tilted?
300
_____________ is the spinning of Earth on its axis
What is rotation?
300
March 20/21
What is spring?
300
This is when sunlight shines equally on the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is equinox?
300
Why did Aristotle think Earth was spherical?
What is curved shadow cast on the moon during an eclipse?
400
11.5 degrees
What is Earth's magnetic tilt?
400
The imaginary vertical line around which Earth spins is known as the ___________.
What is axis?
400
Winter
What is December 21/22?
400
This occurs when the Southern Hemisphere has it's summer solstice and the Northern Hemisphere has it's winter solstice.
What is December solstice?
400
This line is drawn down through the Pacific Ocean directly opposite the Prime Meridian, the starting point for the worldwide system of measuring time
What is international date line?
500
Why is there a greater number of daylight hours in the summer that in the winter?
because the hemisphere experiencing summer is tilted toward the sun
500
How long does it take Earth to rotate on its axis?
What is 23hours 56 minutes?
500
Fall
What is September 22/23?
500
This is when the area of sunlight is at a maximum in one hemisphere and a minimum in the other hemisphere.
What is solstice?
500
Earth revolves around the Sun just like the __________ revolves around the ________________.
Moon.....earth
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