The earth's four hemispheres
What is North, South, West, East?
The line at 0° longitude; goes through Greenwich, England. It runs North to South
What is Prime Meridian?
The sun rise in the ______ and sets in the _______
What are East and West?
Causes the seasons to occur
What is Earth's tilt at 23.5°?
The part of Earth that gets the sun's ray striking directly over a smaller area?
What is the Equator?
An example of an element and chemical compound
What is ....?
What is ...?
A field produced by a magnetic object exerting a force on other magnetic materials or moving electrical charges.
What is a magnetic field?
The motion of Earth spinning on its axis.
What is rotation?
When the Sun is closest to one of the poles.
Hint: It happens in June and December
What is a Solstice?
Angular distance north or south from the equator
What is Latitude?
These are the four components of an atom
What is protons, neutrons, nucleus, and electrons?
True or False: The magnetic poles are not the same as the geographic poles
North Pole ≠ North Magnetic Pole
What is True?
An imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through the center of Earth.
What is an axis?
When the Sun is directly above the Equator and day and night are equal lengths.
Hint: Happens in September and March
What is an Equinox?
During a Northern Hemisphere Winter, the North Pole points away from the Sun. What is happening with the sun's rays and heating?
What are The Sun's rays are not as direct and spread over a larger area (fewer hours of daylight)
The evidence that supports Earth being round
What is Galileo observing Jupiter's Moons, by observing the arc shape of the shadow on the Moon during a lunar eclipse, other planets and the sun are round, ...?
The movements that create the magnetic field
What is the convection of molten metal in the outer core?
The length of time it takes for Earth to Rotate on its Axis?
What is 24 hours (One Day)?
Earth’s movement around the Sun in an orbital path and the time it takes.
What is Revolution and one year (365.25 days)?
The longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Summer Solstice?
At 180 degrees, it lies where today is tomorrow.
Hint: Suite Life
The Magnetic field shields us from this, and what does it create when it comes into contact with the electrical charges from the Magnetic Field?
What is solar Radiation and Northern Lights?
Why do the Sun, moon, and stars appear to rise in the East and set in the West?
What is Earth's rotation? We are the ones moving
Explain: Is Earth farther from the sun in the Winter and closer in the Summer?
What is..?
Imagine that it is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the date, and where is the Sun?
What is happening in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is June 21 or 22; Directly over the Tropic of Cancer; and its Winter in the Southern Hemisphere?