Solstices
What day is the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere?
December 21st
Rotation
When one object moves around another.
Revolution.
What are the seasons on Earth?
Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.
A specific time of year that is characterized by recurring or consistent weather conditions.
What is a season
June 21st is the ____________ Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
Summer
Earth's rotation causes _________.
day and night.
What are Earth's two hemispheres?
Northern and Southern hemispheres.
if it is Summer in Texas, what season is it in Australia?
Winter.
Earth's path around the sun
What is an orbit?
The Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere is the _________ day of the year.
longest.
How long does Earth take to complete one full rotation?
1 day, or 23.93 hours, or 23 hours 56 minutes
How many days does it take Earth to revolve around the Sun?
365.25 days
What causes the seasons ?
The Earth's tilt
Earth orbits the Sun, what orbits Earth?
What is the Moon?
The shortest day of the year is called the __________.
Winter Solstice
Earth's axis is tilted how many degrees?
23.5 degrees
An imaginary line drawn around Earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres:
The Equator
When Earth is tilted towards the Sun, the Northern hemisphere is in which season?
Summer
When does the United States receive the least amount of daylight?
What is the winter solstice?
When are days and nights the same length of time?
Equinoxes (March and September 21st).
______ is the imaginary line that extends from the North pole to the South pole.
the Axis.
True or False: Earth revolves around the Sun in an elliptical path.
True.
True or False: the northern and southern hemispheres experience the same seasons at the same time.
False.
The Northern Hemisphere receives more solar energy during one half of the year than the other because of this.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis