Vocab
Ponder
Earth
Seasons
Potpourri
100
The line around which a rotating body, such as the Earth, spins.
What is an axis?
100
The line of latitude the Sun appears to be over on the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
100
The amount of time it takes the Earth to make one rotation.
What is 24 hours/1 day?
100
The four seasons.
What are Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall/Autumn?
100
If it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the season it is in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is summer?
200
The lines on a map that run in a north-south direction.
What are lines of longitude?
200
On the Southern Hemisphere’s Vernal Equinox, the Sun appears to be over this line of latitude.
What is the Equator?
200
The length of time it takes the Earth to make one revolution.
What is 365 days/1 year?
200
The month and date the Northern Hemisphere’s Summer Solstice begins.
What is June 21?
200
If the Earth’s axis is tilted away from the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere, the season is this.
What is winter?
300
This line of latitude separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
300
The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are this many degrees from the Equator.
What is 23.5 degrees?
300
The number of degrees the Earth’s axis is tilted.
What is 23.5 degrees?
300
The date of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is September 21?
300
The greater number: the number of days for the Earth to revolve around the Sun, or 360.
What is the number of days it takes the Earth to revolve around the Sun: 365.
400
The Earth’s orbit, or path, around the Sun.
What is revolution?
400
The season in the southern hemisphere when the Sun is over the Tropic of Cancer.
What is winter?
400
The line located at 23.5 degrees south latitude.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
400
The season in the Southern Hemisphere when the Sun is over the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is summer?
400
True or False:?The Earth rotates from west to east.
What is true?
500
The longitude line on a map that passes through England, France, Spain, Africa, and Antarctica.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
On our Winter Solstice, the line of latitude the Sun is over.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
500
The names of the two lines of longitude that go around the Earth at 0 and 180 degrees.
What are the Prime Meridian and International Date Line?
500
The date of the Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is June 21?
500
The two reasons we have seasons.
What are: 1. The Earth is tilted on its axis. 2. The Earth revolves around the Sun.
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