Reasons for the Seasons
The earth is tilted at
23.5 degrees
What seasons are the Solstices?
Winter and Summer
When you see less and less of the moon each night
What is waning?
The Earth does this on its Axis
What is rotation?
The Suns distance from Earth in Kilometers.
150 Million Kilometers
What is opposite?
Fall and Spring
The waning moon phase that is 50% illuminated
What is Third Quarter?
24 Hours
The sun is a _________ _________ star.
What is Yellow Dwarf?
The Earths tilt causes the intensity of the suns rays to change from direct to indirect as the earth _________ around the sun.
what is revolves?
The times of the year when daylight and nighttime equal 12 hours each.
What are equinoxes, Spring(vernal), Fall(Autumnal)?
The moon can be seen from earth
Sometimes during the day and night.
The season with the least amount of day light
Winter
As the Earth revolves around the Sun the Earths Axis always has the same tilted position.
What is True?
Temperatures vary during the seasons because the length of day and night are not...
equal in length
If it is summer in the northern hemisphere, What season is the southern hemisphere?
What is Winter?
(TWO PARTS)
The moon _________ around the Earth so sunlight only reflects off of _________ the moon.
What is revolves and half?
The boundary line between day and night.
What is Terminator?
When the suns rays are straight down, they are _____ direct which causes the Earth's temperature to ____ ___ _______.
What is more direct, heat up more?
On December 21st in the Northern Hemisphere the earths axis is tilted ______ the sun. Therefore on June 21st the Earths Axis is tilted _________ the sun.
What is away from, towards?
If the earth was not tilted 23.5 degrees what season would it be?
There would no seasons everyday would be the same 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night time.
The Waxing moon phase that is 80% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous
The parts of the Earth that could have up to 24 hours of Daylight and Darkness.
What is the North and South Pole
Length of time it takes for the suns rays to travel from the surface of the Sun to the Earth.
what is 8 Minutes?