Earth
The shape of the Earth...
What is sphere?
True or False...The Earth moves around the sun.
What is true.
The Earth spins at a speed of...
What is 67,000 miles per hour?
This term describes the Earth spinning continuously around its axis.
What is ROTATION.
When it is winter in North America, it is this in Australia.
What is summer?
We see the sun so big and bright because it is the closest ___________ to Earth.
What is a "star"?
Seasons are _________________ in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is opposite?
It takes this long for the Earth to complete one full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
This imaginary line goes from the North Pole to the South Pole through the center of the Earth.
What is the AXIS.
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
The zone that lacks extreme hot and cold temperatures is...
What is temperate zone?
These terms are used to describe the farthest north and south points where the sun doesn't shine at all on one day each year.
What is Arctic and Antarctic Circles
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
Because of Earth’s tilt, the _______ never beats straight down on places in the far north and south.
What is the sun?
This creates our days, months, years, and seasons.
What is the motion of the Earth?
The sun appears higher in the sky during this season because of the tilt of the earth.
What is "summer"?
The term used to describe one complete trip by the Earth around the sun.
What is a REVOLUTION.
As Earth spins, it is __________ on the side facing the sun, and on the side facing away from the sun, it is _________.
What is daytime....night.
The zones that receive very little sunlight and are cold most of the year.
What is the polar zones?
What is the term used to describe an area between the equator and the Tropic of Cancer and between the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, where the climate is generally hot
What are the TROPICAL ZONES.