Tilt of the Earth
Solstice and Equinox
Seasons
Revolution/Rotation
Hemispheres
100
This is the name of the imaginary line that the Earth rotates around.
What is axis of rotation?
100
The 4 recurring weather pattern in a year.
What is Summer, Autumn (Fall), Winter, Spring?
100
This is the name of the four seasons.
What is Summer, Autumn (Fall), Winter, Spring?
100
This is how long it takes the Earth to revolve around the Sun.
What is about 365 days or 1 year?
100
This is the number of hemispheres that Earth has.
What is 2 hemispheres?
200
This is the name of the star the Earth's axis is tilted towards.
What is the North Star or Polaris?
200
This is the season that has the shortest days.
What is Winter?
200
True or False: If the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun it is Spring.
What is False?
200
This is how long it takes the Earth to rotate once.
What is 24 hours or 1 day?
200
What explains this?
The path Earth travels as it revolves around the s
300
True or False: The tilt angle of the Earth changes throughout the year.
What is False?
300
Days that have equal amounts of day and night (there are exactly two of these in a year).
What is an equinox?
300
These are the two reasons why we have seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth and it's orbit (revolution) around the Sun?
300
This is the definition of revolution.
What is an object moving around another object?
300
This is a name of a country located in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is _________? There are many!
400
This is the angle of the Earth's tilt.
What is 23.5 degrees?
400
The longest and shortest day of the year is (there are exactly two in a year).
What is solstice?
400
Earth moves in this direction.
What is left to right?
400
This is the definition of rotation.
What is an object spinning on its axis?
400
This is the season we experiencewhen the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun.
What is winter?
500
These are the two reasons why Earth has seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth and it's orbit (revolution) around the Sun?
500
This is the month that has the longest day of the year.
What is June?
500
common characteristic of winter compared to summer
What is noon sun is low in the sky
500
This is how many times the Earth rotates in 1 revolution around the Sun.
What is 365 rotations?
500
This is the reason why we have summer in Price when the Earth is tilted towards the sun.
What is we receive more direct sunlight?