Vocabulary
The path a planet takes around the sun
What is orbit?
Winter, spring, summer, and fall
What are seasons?
The kind of shadow a low sun angle produces.
What is a long shadow?
This happens to the daylight hours between December 21 and June 21 (winter/spring).
What is slowly get longer?
The hemisphere where Fairfield, CT can be found.
What is the northern hemisphere (near the Tropic of Cancer)?
to move AROUND another object
What is to revolve?
three imaginary lines on the diagrams of Earth
What are the equator, the tropic of cancer, and the tropic of capricorn?
The kind of shadow a high sun angle will produce.
What is a short shadow?
This is what happens to the daylight hours during summer and fall (June 21 - December 21).
What is slowly get shorter?
The location of Quito, Ecuador.
What is on the equator (0 degrees)?
to spin on an axis
What is to rotate?
The length of the shadow produced by the sun in summer (June 21).
What is a short shadow?
The number of hours total in 1 day/night.
What is 24 hours?
The daylight and nighttime hours in Quito, Ecuador.
What are 12 hours and 12 hours?
intense warming rays (concentrated sunlight)
What is direct sunlight?
March 21 and September 21 - when the sun is directly above the equator and Earth's axis is neither pointed toward or away from the sun
What is the equinox?
The length of the shadow that the sun will produce in winter (December 21).
What is a long shadow?
The number of night hours there would be if there were 15 hours of daylight.
What is 9 hours?
The daylight and nighttime hours in Fairfield, Connecticut.
What is they change slowly throughout the seasons?
sun rays at a tilt - not as warming or concentrated
What is indirect sunlight?
June 21 and December 21, when the sun is directly above the Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Capricorn and it is the first day of winter for the US and the first day of summer for Australia and vice versa
What is the solstice?
The length of the shadow the sun will produce in spring/fall (March 21 or September 21).
What is a medium shadow?
The number of daylight hours there would be if there were 5 hours and 30 minutes (5:30) of night.
What is 18 hours and 30 minutes?
The sunlight hits this directly in the month of June.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?