What season is it when the North Pole is tilted away from the Earth?
Winter
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How often does Earth rotate?
Once every 24 hours
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What is Earth's surface made of?
Rock and soil
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How often do we have leap year?
Every 4 years
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How long is 1 day?
24 hours
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What season is it when the North Pole is tilted toward the Earth?
Summer
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What would happen if Earth did not rotate?
Half of Earth would always have day and the other half would always have night.
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How far is Earth from the sun?
93 million miles
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What is a year?
How long it takes Earth to orbit once around the sun.
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What is the imaginary line that goes through Earth called?
Axis
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What are the two reasons that Earth has seasons?
Earth moving around the sun, and Earth's tilt.
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What are the days and nights like when Earth is tilted away from the sun?
It is winter...days are short, nights are long.
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What is the layer of air surrounding Earth called?
The atmosphere
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How many days does Feb usually have? How many days does Feb have during leap year?
28 usually. 29 during leap year.
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Explain how day and night happen.
It is daytime on the side of Earth that is facing the sun. It is night time on the other side. When it is day time in America, it is night time in India.
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What happens to the North Pole as the Earth rotates around the sun?
It is tilted toward Earth for part of the year, and away from Earth for part of the year.
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Where does the sun rise and set?
Rises in the East and sets in the West
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What makes life possible on Earth?
Air, water, and the right temperature.
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Is a year the same on each planet? Why or why not?
No it is not the same on every planet. It takes each planet a different amount of time to orbit the sun.
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Why does the sun look like its moving across the sky?
The sun looks like it is moving across the sky because the Earth is spinning.
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Tell me how the Earth is tilted for each. 1. Spring 2. Summer 3. Fall 4. Winter