Gravity
The moon causes earths oceans to have how many tides
2 high, 2 low each day
The TROPICS (land between the tropic of Capricorn and the tropic of Cancer.
For every line of longitude the sun rises four minutes later. How many line of longitude are there?
360 degrees on a circle, 360 lines of longitude on earths sphere.
The earth is tilted at 23 degrees on its....
AXIS
Which object changes the shape of the earth more in a given day: the moon or the sun
The moon makes the earth rise and fall by as much as 30 cm each day.
When the earths axis tilts away from the sun that is what season in the northern hemisphere?
WINTER
The earth rotates from west to east. Because of that, it looks like the sun moves in what direction?
From east to west.
The earth spins on its axis once a day. We call that...
ROTATING
What are the two factors that affect the amount of gravity?
The distance and the mass of the objects
When the earth is getting 14 hours of sun a day is that part of the earth getting hotter or Colder
Hotter
Every meridian is 15 degrees of longitude. This means for every meridian the sun rises how many minutes different?
1 hour (same as one time zone different)
The earth circles around the sun once each year. We call that...
REVOLVING
We only get to see one side of the moon from earth. The moon does not spin, we call that being in ________ ________ to the earth.
TIDAL LOCK
The equator is always hotter then the poles because the equator gets more of what kind of sunlight?
DIRECT SUN
The zero meridian runs right through Greenwich England. We call that the _________meridian
PRIME MERIDIAN
The earths orbit around the sun is not a perfect circle. It is actually an...
ELLIPSE (OVAL)
The earths orbit is sometimes closer to the sun than other times... What month is the earth closest to the sun?
JANUARY
In the month of January the amount of sun each day is increasing each day... but it is still getting colder as the month goes on... WHY?
Because there is still less day than night, so it gets colder.
On the opposite side of the globe from the prime meridian (at the 180 degree point) is the international dateline... If it is Thursday on the US side of the meridian, what day is it on the Japanese side.
FRIDAY
Cross it heading to ASIA it is a day later
Cross it heading to America is is a day earlier.
Lines of longitude go up and down. What are the lines that go east and west called
LATITUDE