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Rotation
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Seasons on Earth
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Miss Menke
100
Earth revolves around what?
What is the sun
100
what is the movement of one object around another?
What is revolution
100
What are the four distinct seasons?
What are summer, winter, spring & fall
100
What is a day during which the noon sun is directly overhead at the equator and there are equal hours of day and night?
What is an equinox
100
What lesson did we work on yesterday?
What is graph daylight hours
200
Earth moves through space in what two major ways?
What is rotation and revolution?
200
What is the spinning of Earth on its axis?
What is rotation?
200
Earth has _______ because Earth's axis is tilted as it revolves around the sun?
What are seasons?
200
In December, peopel in the Southern Hemisphere receive the most direct sunlight, meaning it is what season there?
What is summer
200
Where does Miss Menke go to school?
What is OSU
300
What is the imaginary line that passes through the Earth's center and the North & South poles?
What is the axis
300
How long is one complete revolution of Earth?
What is one year
300
What degree is Earth's axis always tilted at?
What is 23.5
300
What is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere?
What is June 21
300
Where is Miss Menke from?
What is Cincinnati
400
what direction appear to move across the sky?
What is westward?
400
The Earth's orbit goes in what shape?
What is slightly elongated circle
400
When is the Earth furthest from the sun?
What is summer in the Northern Hemisphere
400
What date is the sun the farthest south of the equator?
What is December 21
400
What causes the seasons?
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis as it revolves around the sun
500
how long does it take for the Earth to rotate once?
What is 24 hours?
500
What is a path the Earth uses to revolve around the sun
What is orbit
500
What is it called when the north or south end of the axis is pointed the most directly toward the sun?
What is the solstice
500
The ____ equinox occurs around March 21
What is the vernal (spring) equinox
500
How are solstices & equinoxes related to the seasons?
What is solitices mark beginning of summer & winter; equinoxes mark beginning of fall & spring