What is how high or low the object like the Sun is in the sky?
100
What causes our seasons?
What is the tilt of the Earth to 23.5 degrees and changes in the amount of sunlight?
100
When light is spread out like near the poles, we have what type of light?
What is indirect light?
100
Warm air causes _______________.
What is thunderstorms.
100
What is the imaginary line that goes from the North to the South pole through Earth that we spin around?
What is Axis?
200
How many hours does the rotation of the Earth on its axis take?
What is 24 hours?
200
What season is it when the Northern Hemisphere is pointing towards the Sun?
What is Summer?
200
The Northern Hemisphere pointing away from the sun creates what season?
What is the season of Winter?
200
When warm water near the equator heats the air around it that we get thunderstorms, this creates a _____________.
What is a hurricane?
200
When do we have the longest shadows? Why?
What is Winter because we have indirect light and more of an angle with the light?
300
How do we spin on our axis?
What is in a counterclockwise direction?
300
What two seasons are the light is directly at the equator and indirectly at the pole region?
What is fall and spring.
300
What season has the longest daylight hours where the sun rises early in the morning at 5 am and the sun sets at 8 pm?
What is summer?
300
This weather event occurs mostly in India. It is when the winds change directions. The winds take rain into the coast from the water and dump them on the land. Then the winds change, they get blocked by the mountains so the land is dry.
What is a monsoon?
300
Shadows move from what direction to what direction?
What is from the West to the East?
400
What is the word for the Earth orbiting around the Sun? How long does it take for the Earth to orbit the Sun?
What is revolution; 365 days?
400
When the sun is low in the sky, what season do we receive?
What is winter due to the indirect light?
400
What determines how much daylight you will receive?
What is the position of your latitude on the globe. If you are near the Equator, you will receive more daylight and if you are near the poles, you will receive less daylight.
400
How do we get a leap year every 4 years?
What is the actual revolution is 365 1/4 days so 1/4 +1/4+ 1/4 + 1/4 = 1 full day added every 4 years. The day is February 29th.
500
What season has the shortest days? Why?
What is winter with 10 hours of daylight because it is pointing away from the equator?
500
What are the seasons of spring and fall called where they receive the same hours of daylight? 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime.
What is an Equinox?
500
Why is it that we can see the moon at night?
What is the sun's light being reflected off the moon. We see different amounts of light on the moon depending on its position making moon phases like the full moon and half moon.
500
Why does the moon continue to stay in the orbit around the Earth?
What is the Earth has more gravity because it has more mass and will hold the moon in place around it?
500
When it comes to planets, which planet revolves the fastest and which planet revolves the slowest? Why?
What is Mercury revolves the fastest because it is closest to the Sun and Neptune revolves the slowest because it is the furthest from the Sun.