Day & Night
What occurs when part of the Earth is facing the Sun?
Daytime
What is solar angle?
The angle at which the Sun's light hits the Earth.
What causes Earth to experience seasons?
The tilted Earth revolves around the Sun causing the Earth to experience different amounts of direct sunlight.
How are craters formed?
Craters are formed when an object collides with the surface of a planet or moon.
Draw a diagram of day and night.
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What causes day and night?
Rotation of Earth on its axis.
What kind of angle creates more indirect light? More direct light?
A LOW angle creates more INDIRECT light while a HIGH angle creates more DIRECT light.
Explain how and when North America experiences summer and winter.
North America experiences summer at the summer solstice when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted TOWARDS the Sun while winter occurs at the winter solstice when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted AWAY from the Sun.
How does the size of the impactor object affect the size of craters formed?
The larger the object the larger the crater.
Draw a diagram that shows seasons.
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How do we know that the Earth is tilted?
(Fill in the blanks with MORE or LESS) "As the angle of light increases there is ______ direct light, there is ______ area of light, the light is _____ bright, the temperature is ______."
"As the angle of light increases there is _MORE_____ direct light, there is ___LESS___ area of light, the light is _MORE____ bright, the temperature is __MORE____."
The hemispheres experience opposite seasons.
How does the speed of an impactor object affects the size of craters formed?
The faster the impactor object the larger the size of craters.
Draw a diagram that shows the relationship between solar angle and temperature.
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Why is noon typically warmer than 9 am?
At noon the sun is typically at a higher solar angle giving off more direct sunlight than at 9 am which is a lower angle.
How do the seasons at the equator compare to the seasons at the poles?
At the equator there is essentially a single season of summer while at the poles there are only 2 very long seasons of summer or winter.
Define what ejecta and rays are in relation to a crater.
Ejecta is the material blasted out of a crater. Rays are lines of debris (ejecta) that collect outside the rim of a crater.
Draw a diagram of a top-down view of day and night.
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How does the length of daylight hours change as you go north of the equator during summer? Winter?
As you go north in the summer there are more hours of daylight, but during winter as you go north there are less hours of daylight.
Explain what the solar angle is like at the poles and at the equator.
At the poles the solar angle is extreme-either very high or not at all. At the equator the solar angle is always a high solar angle.
Earth wouldn't experience seasons. It would always be hotter at the equator and colder by the poles.
Why does the Moon seem to have more craters than Earth?
The Moon doesn't have the protection of a thick atmosphere like Earth as well as not having the processes, such as weathering and erosion, to erase the craters like Earth does.
Draw a top-down view of seasons.
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