Seasons
The season the Northern Hemisphere experiences when being hit with direct sunlight
What is summer?
The average weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The number of hemispheres Earth has.
The Earth's climate has gone through _______ changes.
The Earth is divided in half by this imaginary line.
What is the equator?
The season the Southern Hemisphere would experience if the Northern Hemisphere were experiencing fall
What is spring?
The type of climate that we experience. It has warm summers and cold winters.
What is temperate?
The half of Earth above the equator. (Hint: a hemisphere)
What is Northern?
A wide tree ring probably means that a place experienced this type of weather.
What is warm and moist?
It takes this many hours for the Earth to rotate once on its axis.
What is 24 hours?
We experience more daylight hours when the sun is tilted _______ the sun.
What is towards?
The type of climate that places close to the equator experience. It is typically warm all year.
What is tropical?
The half of Earth below the equator.
What is Southern?
The imprints or remains of animals and plants that lived in the past.
What are fossils?
The Earth rotates around this. This is why seasons occur.
What is the Sun?
The season the Northern Hemisphere would experience when tilted away from the sun.
What is winter?
The type of climate that places far from the equator experience. It is very cold.
What is polar?
The hemisphere that we live in.
What is Northern?
Scientists drilled holes in these to pull out ice cores and study them.
What are glaciers?
It takes this long for the Earth to rotate once around the sun.
What is one year?
The reason we experience seasons.
What is Earth's tilt and rotation around the sun?
Two landforms that affect climate.
What are oceans and mountains?
The half of Earth that experiences the opposite season that we experience.
What is Southern?
A time period where the Earth was much colder and ice sheets covered large areas.
What are the Ice Ages?
The Earth is tilted on its axis this many degrees.
What is 23.5?