Vocabulary
What is a set of connect parts that form a complete whole?
System
What are the seasons?
Spring, Fall, Winter, Summer
What are the names of the two hemispheres?
Northern, Southern
What two months are the solstices in?
June and December
What months are the Equinoxes?
September and March
What are the latitudes that are furthest north and south that receive sunlight at a perpendicular angle?
The tropics
What months are associated with spring?
March, April, May
What is the imaginary line called that splits the Earth into two hemispheres?
The Equator
What happens during the June solstice?
Which seasons are related to the month September and March?
Fall and Spring
What is a solstice?
A time of year when the sun is directly overhead at one of the tropics during noon
Why do we have seasons?
Because of the Earth's rotation around the sun.
What is the imaginary line that goes through Earth that makes the Earth tilted?
The axis
What happens during the December Solstice?
The southern hemisphere receives the most energy from the sun and the Northern Hemisphere receives the least.
What happens during the September Equinox?
This is the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day of Spring in the Southern Hemisphere
What is an equinox?
A time of year when the sun is directly overhead at the equator at noon, when day and night are of equal length.
When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
summer
Which tropic is in the northern hemisphere?
Tropic of Cancer
What happens during the March Equinox?
This is the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day of fall in the southern hemisphere.
Which season is the sun out the longest amount of time?
Summer
The Earth's axis is tilted at what degree?
23.5 degrees
What is the latitude of the tropics?
Cancer = 23.5 degrees north
Capricorn = 23.5 degrees south