No Rhymes, Just Reasons
The length of time for the Earth to complete one revolution.
What is 365.25 days?
or What is one year?
The amount of daylight hours in the Northern Hemisphere is the greatest during this season.
What is Summer?
How the axis it tilted, in relation to the sun, during summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is, towards the sun?
The longest and shortest days of the year.
What are the summer and winter solstice?
This is the hemisphere that we live in.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
This takes 24 hours and has nothing to do with the reason for seasons.
What is the Earth's Rotation?
The angle of light hitting the northern hemisphere during this solstice is the most indirect.
What is the Winter Solstice?
The degree of tilt of the Earth's axis.
What is 23.5 degrees?
When day and night are of approximately equal length, which happens on one day, twice a year.
What is the Equinox?
(Fall equinox in September and Spring Equinox in March.)
True or False? Summer and Winter are not affected by changes in Earth's distance from the sun.
What is true?
This pole of the Earth will be in complete darkness when the Northern Hemisphere is in the Summer.
What is the a South Pole?
At 0 degrees latitude and perpendicular to the axis.
What is the Equator?
This is what divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
This is what would happen if the Earth had no tilt, as we saw in the seasons simulation.
What is, there would be no seasons and everywhere on Earth would have 12 hours of day and night?
Acceptable answers: "What is No Seasons?" or "What is 12 hours of day and night on all parts of the Earth?" (Doesn't have to be both, can be one or the other.)
**DAILY DOUBLE DANCE CHALLENGE!!**
Accurately demonstrate the motion of the Earth's movements as it moves around the sun by singing and dancing out the "Watch Me" song.
(to the tune of "watch me whip, watch me nae nae")
What is "Watch me Revolve, watch me Rotate."
Revolution (Orbit) the movement (path) of one object around another.
Rotation - The spinning of an object around a real or imaginary axis.
This is the amount (percentage) of the Earth that is in sunlight all of the time.
What is 50%, or half of the Earth?
If Mr. Kipp was heading on vacation to Australia over our summer break, this is how you would tell him to pack.
What are warm clothes!?
The angle of light is less direct during this season than than in the summer and more direct than in the winter.
What is spring? or What is fall? (or both)
**DAILY DOUBLE!!**
This is the month of the year when the angle of sunlight hitting the Southern Hemisphere is the most direct.
What is December?
This is how you describe the tilt of the Earth's axis during the Spring and Fall equinoxes.
This part of the Earth experiences the least amount of seasonal changes.
What is the equator?