Vocabulary 1
The act of spinning around an axis
What is rotation?
Earth's axis is slightly tilted, and this tilt affects ________________________________.
What is the length of daytime?
The time of light between one night and the next
What is day?
The _____________ change as Earth revolves around the sun.
The sun rises much higher in the sky during a ________ day.
What is a summer day?
The period of darkness between sunset and sunrise
What is night?
Earth makes one rotation each _____________.
What is day?
One of four natural divisions of the year-spring, summer, autumn, and winter-in temperate zones
What are seasons?
The sun's apparent path canges from _________ to __________.
What is season to season?
The length of daytime is affected by what?
What is the slight tilt of the Earth's axis?
A ______________ is the path a revolving object follows.
What is orbit?
Around what object does Earth revolve?
What is the sun?
____________________ is the act of spinning around on it axis.
What is Rotation?
What is Earth's axis?
What is an imginary line drawn from the North Pole to the South Pole?
During an _________ day and night are equal.
What is an equinox?
The angle between an object's rotational axis and its orbital axis
What is tilt?
How long does it take for Earth to complete one full orbit around the sun?
What is 365 days?
The path a revolving object follows
If it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is winter?
The day on which the midday sun appears lowest in the sky is the __________ ___________.
What is the winter solstice?
One complete trip around an object in a circular or nearly circular path
What is revolution?
As the Earth rotates different parts are lit, causing the cycle of ________ and ________.
What is day and night?
A real or imaginary line that a spinning object turns around
What is axis?
If it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is summer?
The day on which the sun travels its highest path and the it travels its lowest path are both called ________.
What is a solstice?