Rotation
axis
What is the imaginary line from the North to South poles?
Earth revolves around this
What is the Sun?
The shape of the Earth
What is a sphere?
When one side of Earth is experiencing nighttime, the other is experiencing this
What is daytime?
The four seasons.
What are Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall?
How many hours does it take to complete one rotation?
What is 24?
The days to make one complete revolution around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
What is earth's tilt?
23.5 degrees
Rises in the East
In which direction does the sun rise?
The first day of these 2 seasons are marked by a solstice
if you were to be looking at it from above, what direction is the earth rotating?
Counterclockwise
What causes seasons?
Revolution and tilt of the Earth
How do we deal with the 1/4 day each year? Leap year is every four years and has one extra day
Leap year is every four years and has one extra day
The part of the Earth that is facing the sun experiences this
What is the day?
The first day of these 2 seasons are marked by an equinox
Fall and Spring
24 hours is equal to this many days
What is one day?
The path that an object follows as it revolves around the Sun
What is orbit?
It separates the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere
What is the equator?
This causes day and night.
What is rotation?
During what season is the arc of the sun the highest?
Summer
The apparent path of the sun is caused by this
Earth's rotation
What shape is earth's orbit?
Elipse
What is coming up on March 20th
March Equinox
How much of the Earth is in darkness or shade right now?
Half the earth
Why isn't a sunny day in winter as warm as a sunny day in summer?
in the winter we are experiencing indirect light versus the summer when we experience direct light