The Four Seasons
What are the 4 seasons?
Summer Spring Fall(Autumn) Winter
Summer takes place from June to _______
September
Does earth rotate in an upright position?
No
What are Solstices?
-Summer & Winter
- The longest or shortest days of the year
Does the earth revolve around the sun.. or does the sun revolve around the earth?
The earth revolves around the sun.
What is a season?
A period of weather, temperature changes and hours of sunlight that correspond to a certain location on Earth
On the days of the equinoxes, how many hours of sunlight does the earth receive?
12
The Earth has a tilt of how many degrees
23.5 degrees
What are Equinoxes?
Equinoxes are days in which day and night are of equal duration - 12 hours.
How do you spell the other word for fall?
A.U.T.U.M.N
Why do seasons change?
Seasons change because the tilt of the Earth's axis causes places on Earth to receive different amounts of sunlight throughout the year.
What are the times called when the Earth’s axis has its greatest tilt toward or away from the Sun?
Solstices
The Earth's tilt.
Axis
What is a hemisphere?
Half of the earth cut in the middle by an invisible line (Equator 0)
What is the current season?
Fall
Which two seasons occur when the sun is 'hitting' most directly at the equator?
Spring and autumn
When Spring and Autumn begin, where is the sun?
Directly above the equator
The Sun’s light strikes Earth at different angles during Earth’s revolution around the Sun. Does this cause seasons?
True! the Sun's light strikes earth at different angles around the sun, causing seasons
What is Altitude?
The height of an object or point, in relation to sea level.
It takes how many days for Earth to go around the sun?
365.25 days
What are the reasons for our seasons?
~Earth's rotation around the sun
~The tilt of the Earth's axis
The March equinox is the beginning of what season in the Southern Hemisphere?
Autumn
Through the center of the Earth, there is an imaginary line running through it. Where does this imaginary line start and stop?
North and south pole
What is the equator?
An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles
What is beam spreading.
It is when the suns beams spread to the north and south pole creating summer although it is still cold.