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Hemispheres
General Knowledge
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100
An imaginary line at 0* latitude that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
100
Define equator.
What is the imaginary line at 0* latitude that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
100
The half of the earth that is closest to the South Pole.
What is the southern hemispere?
100
the length of time that it takes the earth to complete one rotation on its axis
What is 24 hours?
100
Why does the sun appear to move across the sky?
What is the rotation of the earth? As the earth spins the sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west.
200
An imaginary line through the center of the earth. It is tilted and the earth spins on this.
What is axis?
200
Define axis.
What is the imaginary line that passes through earth on which it spins. It is tilted.
200
The equator divides the earth into these 2 hemisheres.
What are the northern and southern hemispheres.
200
The amount of time it takes Earth to complete one revolution around the sun.
What is 365 days?
200
The sun appears to rise in the
What is east?
300
To spin (turn) on an axis.
What is rotate?
300
Define rotate.
What is to spin on an axis?
300
The Prime Meridian divides the earth into western and eastern hemispheres.
What are the eastern and western hemispheres?
300
One of the 4 parts of the year that is based on the tilt of the earth on its axis.
What are the seasons?
300
The sun appears to set in the ____________.
What is west?
400
To move in a path around another object such as the sun.
What is revolve?
400
Define revolve.
What is to go around something.
400
Which 2 hemispheres do we live in?
What are the northern and western hemisphere.
400
The cause of day and night.
What is earth spinning on its axis. The side facing the sun has daylight. The side away from the sun has night.
400
The apparent location of the sun in the sky at noon.
What is straight overhead?
500
Half of the earth?
What is a hemisphere?
500
Define hemisphere.
What is half of the earth?
500
The half of the earth that is closer to the North Pole. It is tilted toward the sun in June and gets a lot of light so it is summer.
What is the northern hemisphere.
500
Name the 2 factors that cause seasons to change.
What are the earth's tilt and its revolution?
500
Describe when it is summer in the Northern hemisphere.
What is when the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun so it gets a lot of light?