Special Days
The longest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Summer Solstice?
The name for the top half of the Earth.
What is the Northern Hemishpere?
What is the Earth's tilt?
The season the Northern Hemisphere experiences when it is pointed directly towards the Sun.
What is Summer?
What is Spring?
The day which has equal days and nights which comes after Winter.
What is the Spring Equinox?
The name for the bottom half of the Earth.
What is 23.5 degrees?
The season the Northern Hemisphere experiences when it is pointed directly away from the Sun.
What is Winter?
The name of another planet in the solar system which also has seasons due to its tilt.
What is Mars?
The shortest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Winter Solstice?
The name of the imaginary line that splits the Earth into a top and bottom half.
What is the equator?
The motion of the Earth around the Sun.
What is revolution/revolving?
The relationship between the seasons in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is opposite?
The season that is associated with festivals celebrating the return of light after the shortest day of the year.
What is Winter?
The day which has equal days and nights which comes after Summer.
What is the Fall Equinox?
An imaginary line that the Earth spins around.
What is the Earth's axis?
The motion of the Earth about its axis.
What is rotation/rotating?
The season it would be in Chicago, IL if it was Winter in Melbourne, AUS.
What is Summer?
The vernal equinox is another name for this equinox, not to be confused with the Autumnal equinox.
What is the Spring Equinox?
The four days the solstices and equinoxes lie on.
What are June 21st, September 21st, December 21st, March 21st?
The name of the region which has long periods of daylight or nighttime.
What is the Arctic or Antarctic Circle?
The amount of days it takes the Earth to complete one trip around the Sun. (I will call on you in order of your buzzes and take the most accurate answer.)
What is 365.2421988?
The season it would be in Millerstown, PA if it was Fall in Las Vegas, Nevada.
What is Fall?
The name for the colorful displays of light in the sky, often seen in high-latitude regions during winter.
What is the Northern Lights?