Rotation
How would you define rotation?
What is rotation is when the Earth spins on its axis?
How would you define revolution?
Revolution is when the Earth goes around the Sun.
What is the difference between direct and indirect light?
What is with direct light, the light is focused in one spot giving you hotter temperatures and with indirect light, the light is spread out and at an angle giving you colder temperatures.
During what season, is the Sun highest in the sky? What type of light does this season get?
What is the season of summer because the Sun shines directly on the land - direct light?
What is the vocabulary word for the imaginary line that goes from North to South that the Earth spins on?
What is the axis?
How long does rotation of the Earth take?
What is the rotation of Earth takes 24 hours or exact time is 23 hours and 56 minutes?
How long does one revolution around the Sun take?
What is the Earth takes 365 1/4 days for it to go around the Sun?
How is the Northern Hemisphere when we have summer time? How is the Northern Hemisphere when we have winter time? Need to explain both to get points.
What is the Northern Hemisphere is pointed towards the Sun during summer time? What is the Northern Hemisphere is pointed away from the Sun during winter time?
During what season is the Sun low in the sky?
What is the season is winter because the Sun hits the land at an angle - indirect light?
How many degrees is the tilt or slant of the Earth?
What is the tilt of the Earth is 23. 5 degrees?
What happens to the Sun, Moon, and stars as a result of rotation? How does it look like?
What is the Sun, moon, stars look like they are moving across the sky from the east to the west?
What season has the shortest hours of daylight?
What is winter because we are pointed away?
During Spring and Fall, why do we get mild temperatures? Please explain the light.
What is during spring and fall, the light where we are in Ohio is indirect more so because we are further from the equator? The equator experiences direct light and hot during these two seasons.
The sun moves from the ___________ to the _____________. Early in the ________ and Way Late in the ___________.
What is the Sun moves from the East to the West?
During what two seasons do we experience the same amount of daylight of 12 hours roughly here in Ohio?
What is the seasons of spring and fall?
Rotation changes the amount of daylight. True or False.
What is false? The tilt changes the amount of daylight.
What season has the shortest days? Why?
What is winter? Winter because it is pointed away.
What two things or reasons are why we get our seasons?
What is the Earth revolves around the Sun and the Earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees?
How are the shadows in Winter time compared to the shadows in Summer time? Why?
What is the shadows in winter time are longer due to the sun shining indirectly and the shadows in summer time are shortest due to the sun shining directly?
What is an equinox?
What are two ways you could prove to someone else who didn't know we were spinning?
What is the reason that the Northern Star stays in the center above the North Pole while the other constellations move around it? What is we have gone up to space in a rocket and taken videos? What is we have seen images from satellites? What is an instrument such as a pendulum swings back and forth during the course of the day knocking down pins and nails to show this?
What do we get as a result of the 1/4 day in the exact time it takes to go around the Sun?
What is every four years, we experience a new day on the calendar known as leap day - Feb. 29th.
What determines the amount of daylight hours you will receive? Example: Alaska
What is the location on the latitude that determines how much daylight hours you will receive? Alaska is the northernmost city in the North America and it receives sometimes 2 hours of daylight and other times, 22 hours of daylight depending on its tilt.
During what seasons would the sun be not the highest in the sky and the sun would not be the lowest in the sky?
What is the seasons of spring and fall?
What is the vocabulary word for when the seasons of summer and winter experience different amounts of daylight hours during the day because the sun is either higher or lower in the sky? They don't receive 12 hours of daylight hours.
What is the summer and winter solstices?