Shadows
The time of day when shadows are smallest.
What is noon (or the middle of the day)?
The season it is in the northern hemisphere when it is summer in the southern hemisphere.
What is winter?
The earth has rotated so that our side faces the sun.
What is day time?
The act of spinning around.
What is rotation?
Explains the difference between shadows in summer and winter.
What is the Sun’s path across the sky is lower in winter than in summer. OR The Sun’s path across the sky is higher in summer than in winter.
The Winter solstice is ______________.
What is the shortest day of the year?
The imaginary line that starts at the top of the north pole and ends at the south pole
What is an axis?
The act of moving around another object.
What is revolution?
The reason we can see the moon.
What is the reflection of the sun's light shining on the moon?
The time of day when shadows are longest.
What is morning or evening (or sunrise or sunset)?
The reason the northern hemisphere has summer in June, July and August and the Southern hemisphere has summer in December, January, and February.
What is the earth's tilt on its axis?
Light from the sun falls on this much of the spinning earth.
What is half?
Another word for revolution.
What is orbit?
What the sun is made of and why it looks like a burning ball.
What is gasses causing a nuclear reaction?
The direction a shadow travel throughout the day?
What is the direction of a shadow moves from west to east as the Sun appears to move from east to west.
The time it takes the earth to make one rotation.
What is 24 hours?
How long it takes the earth to obit the sun
What is 365 1/4 days?
The reason we see the moon differently and see different constellations over time.
What is the movement (rotation and revolution) of the earth?
This Earth's motion causes the direction of a shadow to change?
What is Earth rotating on its axis once every day.
The time of the year when the day and night are about an equal number of hours (scientific name).
What is the equinox?
The direction the earth spins around
What is from West to East?
This causes stronger gravity.
What is more mass?
The most easily recognized constellation in our night sky.
What is the big dipper?