Rotation
When the Earth spins on its axis.
What is rotation?
The Earth's movement around the Sun.
What is revolution?
Period of time with certain characteristics.
What are seasons?
This is the first day of Fall and Spring.
What is an equinox?
This is the first day of Summer and Winter.
What is a solstice?
The amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate once.
What is 24 hours?
The amount of time it takes for the Earth to revolve once around the Sun.
What is 365 days or one year?
The measurement of how hot or cold something is.
The Spring Equinox happens on this day.
When is March 20?
The longest day of the year.
What is the Summer Solstice?
A cycle we see in the sky as a result of rotation.
What is sunrise/sunset?
What is the moon appearing?
What are the stars appearing?
The Earth's revolution causes us to experience these periods of time.
What are seasons?
We experience seasons because of the Earth's revolution and it's ...
What is tilt?
The Fall Equinox happens on this day.
The shortest day of the year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
We are able to predict events that happen over and over like sunrise and sunset because they are...
What is cyclical?
The number of times you have revolved around the Sun.
What is (your age)?
When Earth is titled toward the Sun, it is this season.
What is Summer?
The amount of daylight and sunlight we have during an equinox.
What is equal day and equal night?
What is tilted toward the Sun?
The Earth spins on this imaginary line.
What is an axis?
The Earth orbits the sun on a path that is this shape.
What is an ellipse?
When it is Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is this season in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Winter?
The position of the Earth during an equinox.
What is titled neither away from or toward the Sun?
The Earth's position during the Winter Solstice.
What is titled away from the Sun?