Summer Solstice
What day is the summer solstice?
When is June 21
What day is the winter solstice?
When is December 21.
Why is Antarctica cold if it recieves 24 hours of daylight in the summer?
What is Antarctica is cold because of the indirectness of the sun. The sun is spread out, which causes the land to heat up less.
How many hours of daylight does the equinox get in the summer?
What is 12 hours.
If it is fall in the Northern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is Spring.
When is June 21.
When is the shortest day of the year?
When is December 21.
What month is your shadow the shortest?
When is June
How much daylight does the equator get in the Winter?
What is equal, 12 hours.
When is the sun the highest in the sky?
What is solar noon.
Is the Summer solstice the hottest day of the year and why?
What is no because even though the sun is at its highest point and shining the most direct, it takes time for the land to absorb the heat and warm up the surrounding area.
What is a solstice?
The time in the year when the sun reaches its maximum or minimum declination marked by the shortest and longest day in the year.
When is your shadow the longest?
When is sunrise and sunset.
During the equinox, do the Northern and Southern Hemisphere receive the same amount of daylight?
What is yes.
What compass direction must you always look up to see the Sun?
What is South.
Why is Sping warmer than Winter, but colder than Summer?
The suns rays and radiation are more direct than winter, but less direct than summer. The rays are still at slight angle which affects the way we feel the heat of the sun.
Is the sun closer or further away during the winter months?
What is further.
Why can we sometimes see the sun and other times not see the sun?
The sun's path affects how we see the sun. Because of the Earths rotation, during day we can see the sun, but at night the sun is not visible.
What do the equinoxes signal?
What is the start of the Northern Lights.
In the Winter, is the Earth facing towards or away from the sun?
What is away.
Where do the suns rays shine directly in the Summer?
What is the Tropic of Cancer.
Where do the suns rays shine directly in the Winter?
What is the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is the difference between the rotation and revolution?
What is day(rotation). What is year(revolution).
What is the Analemma Effect and why does it occur?
What is a figure pattern in which the sun moves from a place on earth. It is caused due to the sun declination of 46.8 and the highest the sun goes changing throughout the year.
What day does the sun rise directly in the East and set directly in the West?
When is March 21 or September 21.