Axis
What is an axis?
An imaginary line in which the Earth rotates.
Seasons are caused by...
The tilt of the earth's axis.
What is a revolution?
A solstice happens in...
Summer and winter
Hemispheres are split between...
North and South
East and West
What is the degree of the tilt of the axis?
23.5
When it's summer in the northern hemisphere it's ______ in the southern hemisphere.
Winter
What is an elliptical?
An oval or stretched out circle.
An equinox happens in...
Spring and fall.
If we lived in South Africa, what hemisphere would we live in?
Southern Hemisphere
The tilt of the axis causes...
Seasons
True or False: The northern and southern hemisphere experience spring and fall at the same time.
False
What does it mean for something to be tilted?
Leaning
The winter solstice occurs on...
December21st/22nd
If the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun it is....
Summer
The spinning movement on the axis is called...
Rotation
During summer days are ______ and nights are ______.
Longer, shorter.
A rotation is a...
spinning movement.
The summer solstice happens on...
If the northern hemisphere is neither tilted towads or away from the sun it is...
Fall or Spring
It takes the Earth x amount of time to rotate around its axis.
x = 24 hours
During winter, days are ______ and nights are _____.
Shorter, longer.
What characteristics make a season?
Temperature, weather, and daylight durations.
The Fall equinox happens in what month?
September
It is January in Australia, what season is it?
Summer