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100
An elongated, closed curve
What is an ellipse?
100
This take 23 hours and 56 minutes
What is period of rotation?
100
When is the Sun closest to Earth?
What is January 3rd?
100
March 20-21
What is spring?
100
How many degrees does Earth spin in one hour?
What is 15 degrees?
200
The term used to describe the spinning of Earth on its axis
What is Rotation?
200
What is the diameter of Earth at the equator
What is 12,456km?
200
Least daylight and most darkness.
What is December 21/22?
200
The longest day of the year.
What is Summer Solstice, June 21/22?
200
Summer occurs on the hemisphere of Earth that is _______.
What is tilted toward the Sun?
300
Earth's yearly trip around the Sun is known as __________________________.
What is Revolution?
300
Earth's axis is tilted ___ from perpendicular plane of orbit.
What is 23.5 degrees?
300
When is the Earth farthest from the Sun?
What is July 4th?
300
Daylight and nighttime hours are equal all over the world; occurs twice a year.
What is equinox?
300
The spinning of Earth around its axis that causes day and night.
What is rotation?
400
Occurs when the Sun is directly above the Earth's equator.
What is equinox?
400
How far is the Earth's magnetic field tilted?
What is 11.5 degrees?
400
Our longest day of the year is….
What is June 21 or 22?
400
When is Fall?
what is September 22/23?
400
The apparent movement of the Sun from noon one day until noon the next day is called a ________ _______.
What is solar day?
500
When the Sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator.
What is Solstice?
500
Average distance that Earth is from the Sun.
What is 149,600,000 km?
500
Sun is directly over Tropic of Cancer
What is summer June 21/22?
500
What day is the Sun directly over Tropic of Capricorn?
What is Winter December 21/22?
500
If you followed a compass needle pointing north, you would end up at the _______ _______ ________.
What is Magnetic North Pole?