Earth Needs Some R & R
When the Earth makes an orbits around the Sun
What is a revolution?
The solstice that begins on June 21st, in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is the winter solstice?
This angle is 23.5 degrees
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
When every place on Earth gets 12 hours of sunlight
What is an equinox?
When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere it is this season in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is winter?
When the Earth makes one complete turn on its axis
What is a rotation?
The solstice that begins on December 21st, in the Northern Hemisphere
What is the winter solstice?
This always points toward the North Star
What is the tilt of the axis?
The tilt causes the top of our axis (North Pole) to always point toward the North Star.
When the poles get 24 hours of sunlight or darkness
What is a solstice?
When it is fall in South America it is this season in Louisiana
What is spring?
When half of the Earth is facing away from the Sun it is this time of the day on that side.
What is night time?
When neither the North or South Poles lean toward the sun
What is an Equinox?
This is the cause of the seasons
What is the earth's tilt
This hemisphere gets direct solar energy around June 21
What is the Northern Hemisphere
When it is summer in Arizona, it is what season in Canada?
What is summer! (They are BOTH in the same hemisphere!)
When half of the Earth is facing the sun it is this time of day on that side.
What is day time?
When the sun is at its max in one hemisphere and its minimum in the other
What is a Solstice?
The season in Louisiana when the North Pole leans toward the sun.
What is summer?
On March 23 it is this season in Australia
What is the Antarctic Circle?
It is this month in the Southern Hemisphere when it is receiving direct solar energy
December!
Direct Solar Energy Happens in the Summer!
When it is noon on one side of the Earth it is this time on the other side.
What is midnight?
The locations that get the Sun's most intense rays at equinoxes and solstices.
What is the equator
The season in Louisiana when the South Pole is facing the sun.
What is winter?
The reason some places get 24 hours of sunlight or darkness at the solstices.
What is the effect of the poles facing directly towards or away from the sun's rays?
FINAL JEOPARDY:
Sydney, Australia is currently experiencing it's longest day of the year. In what part of the world is it the Autumn season?
NO PART OF THE WORLD IS EXPERIENCING AUTUMN!