Vocabulary
The motion of spinning around an axis.
What is rotation!
A shadow happens when an object blocks
What is sunlight!
This is the season when the earth receives the least amount of direct sunlight.
What is winter
This type of device is used to measure the time of day using the sun and a solid object.
What is a sundial
Most items for the experiment we did about shadows outside had a bigger shadow in the morning that in the afternoon.
True
The oval path around the sun that the earth follows and completes in 365 days.
What is orbit!
An object casting a shadow at 1:00pm is longer/shorter than that object casting a shadow at 4:00pm
What is shorter!
This is the season when we receive the most amount of direct sunlight.
What is summer!
The direction that the shadow moves throughout the day on a sundial
What is clockwise
The garbage can
This imaginary line runs directly through the object's center, from the north to the south poles of the Earth.
What is axis!
Shadows are shortest at this time of day
What is 12pm/noon
The degree to which the earth is tilted
What is 23.5 degrees
The direction that a sundial is facing in the southern hemisphere
What is south
What person's shadow was measured in the experiment?
Miss. Fedor's
A dark area created by a solid object when light shines behind it.
What is shadow!
A shadow is cast in what direction of the sunlight
This motion causes night and day
What is rotation
The direction that a sundial need to be facing in the northern hemisphere
What is North (Slightly off)
(True or False) The shadow changed direction throughout the day (If you do not know, predict your answer)
True
The pointer located at the center of a sundial.
What is gnomon!
The time of day in which shadows are the longest
What is the morning and the evening.
The Earth's __________ around the sun causes the seasons throughout the year.
What is revolution
The first sundial was known to be created in this era
What is 1500 BC!
The number of objects that we measured in this experiment.
What is 4