Earth's Geography
It takes 365.24 days for the Earth to complete one
What is a revolution?
True or False: The moon rotates.
What is true (the moon rotates slowly!)?
Imaginary lines within between which the sun hits most directly all year long
What is the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
A day with equal amount of daylight and nighttime, occuring in September and March
What is equinox?
It is coldest in these two regions of the Earth.
What is the North and South Pole?
This keeps the Earth from flying off into space in a straight line
What is gravitational pull of the sun?
The day when one of earth's hemisphere is tilted away from the sun and experiences the least daylight
What is winter solstice?
Brazil is located in this hemisphere
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
This is tilted in relation to Earth's orbit around the sun
What is Earth's axis of rotation?
This is the reason that the Earth keeps orbiting the sun but does not directly crash into it
What is inertia (the continuation of motion from the beginning of the solar system)
What is Summer solstice?
Two seasons of the year when both hemispheres experience equinoxes
Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, and Full Moon are all examples of this.
What are moon phases?