This area receives almost 24 hours of daylight during the summer and almost no daylight during the winter.
What is near the poles?
100
Daylight hours are longest during ____________ and shortest during _____________.
What is the summer, winter?
100
This is how long a rotation is.
What is about 24 hours?
100
This is what happens during summer.
What is the hemisphere is tilted towards the sun and receiving direct sunlight?
200
During December 21 the Earth is tilted _____________ the sun in the northern hemisphere.
What is away from the sun?
200
This area receives similar daylight hours throughout the year.
What is near the equator?
200
This is the first day of summer and this is the first day of winter for the northern hemisphere.
What is June 21 and December 21?
200
This is how long a revolution is.
What is 365 1/4 days?
200
These two seasons have similar daylight hours.
What is fall and spring?
300
In January the southern hemisphere is pointed ________________ in relationship to the sun.
What is towards?
300
These areas experience equal daylight hours during the fall and spring.
What is everywhere?
300
This is what would happen if the Earth was not tilted.
What is we would not experience seasons.
300
What would happen if the earth rotated slower than 24 hours?
What is we would have longer days?
300
This is why the southern hemisphere has opposite seasons to the northern hemisphere.
What is when one hemisphere is tilted towards the sun, the other is tilted away from the sun. Therefore, they receive direct sunlight at opposite times.
400
This is how the tilt affects seasons.
What is causes hemispheres to be tilted towards the sun, giving them more direct sunlight?
400
This is why the sun, moons and stars move across the sky each day.
What is the Earth's counter-clockwise rotation causes objects in the sky to rise in the east and set in the west?
400
This is how seasons help us to survive.
What is allows us to moderate our temperatures?
400
This causes the sun to rise in the east and set in the west.
What is the counterclockwise movement of Earth's rotation?
400
These cause the seasons.
What is revolution and the Earth's tilt?
500
Despite having 24 hours of sunlight, this is why the poles never reach high temperatures.
What is the poles receive indirect sunlight?
500
How do the hours of daylight change over the course of a year in North America?
What is they are longest in the summer and shortest in the winter and nearly equal in spring and summer?
500
This is what would cause a planet to have a shorter day than 24 hours.
What is a faster rotation?
500
This causes the hemisphere to be aimed at the sun at different times throughout the year
What is the revolution?
500
What does the Earth's tilt look like during the fall and spring.
What is tilted neither towards nor away from the sun?