Vocabulary
What is a season?
a pattern of changing daylight and temperatures that occurs every 3 months each year.
What is a pattern?
a regular sequence.
What causes seasons on Earth?
Earth's tilted axis as it revolves around the Sun.
What is temperature?
how hot or cold the atmosphere near the ground is.
What causes the Earth to experience seasons?
Earth's tilted axis as it revolves around the Sun
Which fact is incorrect about Winter?
1. Temperatures are colder
2. Some animals hibernate.
3. Daylight hours are shorter.
4. The Northern hemisphere of the Earth tilts toward the Sun.
4. The Northern hemisphere of the Earth tilts toward the Sun.
What is daylight?
amount of time between sunrise and sunset.
summer
What are two statements that are correct about daylight hours?
1. There are more hours of daylight in winter.
2. There are fewer hours of daylight in winter.
3. There are more hours of daylight in summer.
4. There are equal hours of daylight in summer and winter.
2. There are fewer hours of daylight in winter.
3. There are more hours of daylight in summer.
What does revolve mean?
to move around something.
Using these clues, which season is being described?:
1. Occurs during the months of December, January, and February for the Northern Hemisphere.
2. Least amount of direct sunlight and marked by low temperatures.
3. Trees have lost their leaves, animals are hibernating, and seeds are dormant.
winter
What is an axis?
an invisible line that an object spins around.
Sun's direct sunlight on the southern hemisphere. What season would be occuring in that hemisphere?
summer