Vocabulary
What is RevolutionWhat is the act of the Earth going around the sun
What is Revolution
What is the shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year for Northern Hemisphere
What is the Winter Solstice
Cities near this area of the world experience equal daylight all year long.
what is the equator
True or False: The Earth rotates around the sun
What is False: the Earth revolves around the sun.
Why do places near the equator have about the same temperature throughout the year?
What is they receive about the same amount of sunlight all year round.
What is the act of the Earth rotating around its axis
What is Rotation
What is the longest day and shortest night of the year for the Northern Hemisphere
What is Summer Solstice
Greenland is in this hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
True or False: One Earth year is 365 1/4 days
What is True
What is leap year.
True or False: the seasons happen because of how close the earth is to the sun
What is False
What Hemisphere is Australia
Southern Hemisphere
True or False: Places around the Equator experience seasons just like the Northern and Southern hemisphere
What is False
What is the invisible thing the Earth rotates around
What is axis
True or False: During the Summer Solstice, we experience more than 12 hours of daylight
What is True
When does the Autumnal Equinox occur in the Southern hemisphere
What is Fall time, March 21
What North American marsupial has a body temperature too low to have rabies?
Opossum
What continent did the T. Rex lived on?
North America
What is tiltWhat helps cause the seasons and from the Earth tilting toward or away from the sun, it gives us our solstices
What is tilt
What 2 months do our solstices occur in the northern hemisphere?
What is June and December
True or False:Latitude and longitude mean the same thing.
What is false. Latitude is for North/South (Up/down) and Longitude is for East/West (horizontal)