Revolution
This is the name for the path a planet takes around the sun.
What is orbit (revolution)?
This is the process of Earth spinning on its axis.
What is rotation?
The Earth spins on this imaginary line...
What is its axis?
This is the main reason we experience four distinct seasons on Earth.
What is Earth's tilt?
This planet rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?
This is the number of days it takes for the Earth to orbit the Sun.
What is 365.25?
This is the amount of time it takes for Earth to make one complete rotation.
What is 24 hours?
This term is used to describe a certain time of the year.
What are seasons?
We experience this season when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun.
What is winter?
These objects are known as shooting stars.
What are meteors?
This occurs every four years when we add one day to the calendar.
What is leap day/year?
Earth's rotation causes this to happen.
What is day/night?
This is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and occurs when Earth's tilt away from the Sun is at its maximum.
What is the winter solstice?
We experience this season when the Southern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun.
What is summer?
This object is made of ice, gas, and dust and can have a "tail" as it passes near the Sun.
What is a comet?
Earth is traveling at this speed as we orbit the Sun.
What is 67,000 mph (107,000 km/h)?
Earth is tilted at this angle.
What is 23.4 degrees?
What is spring.
When the hours of daylight and darkness are equal everywhere on Earth, it is known as the...
What is the equinox?
These objects are found in a "belt" orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the asteroid belt?
This phenomenon keeps Earth (and the other seven planets and object in the solar system) in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
If Earth was spinning at a slower speed, this would happen as a result.
What is days and nights would be longer; We would have more than 24 hours in a day?
This is the shortest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is June 21?
This is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is summer solstice?
This planet is 93 million miles or 1 AU from the Sun.
What is Earth?