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Vocabulary
Earth's Movement
Cause of Seasons
Solstices
Equinoxes
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Axis
What is the imaginary line that passes though planet's center?
100
Earth moves in space two major ways.
What is rotation and revolution
100
Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn.
What is seasons?
100
The sun appears farthest north of the equator once a year, and the sun appears farthest south of the equator once a year.
What is a solstice?
100
Equinox
What is "equal night"?
200
Orbit
What is the path of an object as it revolves around another object in space?
200
The sun appears to move west across the sky.
What is Earth's rotation?
200
Earth has seasons.
What is Earth's tilted axis?
200
Summer Solstice.
What is longest day of the year?
200
Neither hemisphere is titled toward the sun.
What is halfway between the solstice?
300
A system of organizing time that defines the beginning, length, and divisions of a year.
What is a calendar?
300
Gregorian.
What is the calender that was most recently developed?
300
The north end is tilted away from the sun for part of the year and toward the sun for the part if the year.
What is Earth revolving around the sun?
300
The sun appears farthest south.
What is December 21?
300
Day and night are each 12 hours long
What is during an equinox?
400
Either two days of the year that the sun reaches the greatest distance north or south of the equator.
What is the solstice?
400
Earth's path is a slight elongated circle, or ellipse.
What is orbit?
400
Near the equator, the sunlight hits the Earth's surface from almost overhead, and near the poles, the sunlight arrives at a steep angle.
What is sunlight striking Earth's surface?
400
The sun rises to the northeast and sets to the west.
What is the longest day in the Northern hemisphere and the shortest day in the Southern hemisphere.
400
Equinox occurs around March 21.
What is spring equinox?
500
Equinox
What is either of the two days in a year where the hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun?
500
Earth's movement around the sun is called a year.
What is one revolution?
500
Earth's tilt as is revolves around the sun.
What is summer and winter?
500
Where a solstice occurs in the Northern hemisphere.
What is the winter solstice?
500
An equinox occurs around September 22.
What is the fall?