Seasons
These days have equal hours of daylight and darkness.
What are Equinox
If the Earth had no tilt, we would no longer have?
What are seasons
When the sun shines at a maximum in one hemisphere and a minimum in the other.
What is solstice?
If the Northern Hemisphere is pointing toward the sun, what season will we have?
What is summer?
The type of orbit the Earth makes around the sun.
What is elliptical?
Earth's sits at a ______ angle
What is 23.5?
Name the moon phase that follows a full moon.
What is waning gibbous?
Due to the Earth’s axis, the hemisphere leaning towards sun has _____ days.
What is longer/hotter?
The number of moons Earth has.
What is one?
The motion the moon does around the Earth and the Earth does around the sun.
What is revolve?
If the speed of the Earth's rotation changed what would it affect?
The length of days/nights
This phase of the moon follows the new moon phase.
What is waxing crescent?
The reason we don't have an eclipse during every new moon or full moon.
What is the moon's orbit is on a tilt so the sun, moon, and Earth only line up twice a year for an eclipse?
The number of moon phases.
What is 8?
The rotation of Earth on its axis causes every location on the surface of Earth to move as
Earth turns. What direction does each location move?
What is counterclockwise or west to east?