The Four Seasons
Start of each Season
Tilt of the Earth
Definitions
BONUS :)
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What are the four seasons?
Summer, Spring, Fall (Autumn), Winter
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Summer takes place from June to _______
September
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Does earth rotate in an upright position?
No
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What are Solctices?
-Summer & Winter

- The longest or shortest days of the year

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Does the earth revolve around the sun.. or does the sun revolve around the earth?
The earth revolves around the sun
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What is a season?
A period of weather, temperature changes and hours of sunlight that correspond to a certain location on Earth
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On the days of the equinoxes, how many hours of sunlight does the earth receive?

12

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Earth has a tilt of how many degrees?
23.5 degrees
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What are Equinoxes? 
Equinoxes are days in which day and night are of equal duration - 12 hours. 
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How do you spell the other word for fall?
A.U.T.U.M.N
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Why do seasons change?
Seasons change because the tilt of the Earth's axis causes places on Earth to receive different amounts of sunlight throughout the year.
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What are the times called when the Earth’s axis has its greatest tilt toward or away from the Sun?
Solstices :)
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What is another name to call the tilt of the earth?
Axis
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What is a hemisphere?
Half of the earth cut in the middle by an invisible line (Equator 0)
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What is the current season?

Winter/Spring

400
Which two seasons occur when the sun is 'hitting' most directly at the equator?
Spring and autumn
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When Spring and Autumn begin, where is the sun?
Directly above the equator
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The Sun’s light strikes Earth at different angles during Earth’s revolution around the Sun. Does this cause seasons?
True! the Sun's light strikes earth at different angles around the sun,  causing seasons
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What is Revolution?

Something travels on an orbit around the Sun. Earth's revolution is one year or 365 days

400
It takes how many days for Earth to go around the sun?
365.25 days
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What are the reasons for our seasons?
~Earth's rotation around the sun 

 ~The tilt of the Earth's axis

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The March equinox is the beginning of what season in the Southern Hemisphere?
Autumn
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Through the center of the Earth, there is an imaginary line running through it. Where does this imaginary line start and stop?
North and south pole
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What is the equator?
An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles
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What are Ms. Anderson's 2 favorite seasons?

Fall & Winter

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