The Solar System
The Sun and Seasons
Terms
Solstices
Equinoxes
100
Made up of Earth, 7 other major planets, and thousands of smaller bodies.
What is The Solar System?
100
The number of seasons.
What is 4?
100
Path around the sun.
What is an Orbit?
100
Day with the most hours of sunlight.
What is the Summer Solstice?
100
When the length of day and night are equal.
What is an Equinox?
200
The number of Planets
What is 8?
200
Another name for fall.
What is Autumn?
200
An imaginary line that passes through the center of earth from the North to South Pole
What is an Axis?
200
Falls on or about December 22nd.
What is the Winter Solstice?
200
Falls on or about March 21st.
What is the Spring Equinox?
300
Earth is the _______________ planet from the sun.
What is 3rd?
300
Marks the beginning of summer.
What is the Summer Solstice?
300
The layer of oxygen and gasses that surround Earth.
What is the Atmosphere?
300
Has the fewest hours of sunlight.
What is the Winter Solstice?
300
Falls on or around September 23rd?
What is the Fall Equinox?
400
The time it takes Earth to make one rotation.
What is 24 hours?
400
Marks the beginning of spring?
What is the Spring Equinox?
400
The low latitude areas near the equator, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
What are the Tropics?
400
Occurs on or around June 21st.
What is the Summer Solstice?
400
When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere it is ________________________ in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is winter?
500
The time it takes for Earth to orbit the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
500
Marks the beginning of winter.
What is the Winter Solstice?
500
Another word for equal, meaning the exact same.
What is identical?
500
Where the sun shines during the Summer Solstice.
What is directly overhead at the Tropic of Cancer?
500
When it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere it is ______________________ in the Northern Hemisphere?
What is Summer?
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