Time Check
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?
The imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth, from the North Pole to the South Pole
What is the Earth's axis?
What the path is called that the Earth takes around the sun
What is its orbit?
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 (lowest).
What is the Winter Solstice?
The degree of tilt of the Earth
What is 23.44 degrees?
This is what divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
True
DAILY DOUBLE
Day and night are approximately this long during the equinoxes.
This is the amount (percentage) of the Earth that is in sunlight all of the time.
What is 50%, or half of the Earth?
How the Earth is tilted, in relation to the sun, during summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is, towards the sun?
DAILY DOUBLE
As a group, model the location of the Earth and Sun, including the Earth's axial tilt for the December Solstice.
The reason for the seasons
The longest day of the year
What is the summer solstice?
If you're on the side of the Earth that is away from the sun, you're experiencing this period of the 24-hour cycle.
What is night?
If it's winter in New York, in Sydney, Australia it's this season.
What is summer?
The direction that the Earth revolves around the sun
What is counterclockwise?
The shortest day of the year
What is the winter solstice?
If a location at 45 degrees North latitude experiences 15 hours of daylight in June, which latitude will experience roughly 15 hours of daylight in December?
What is 45 degrees South
The month of the year when the angle of sunlight hitting the Southern Hemisphere is the most direct (highest).
What is December?
During these two seasons, the Earth is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, and the hemispheres receive roughly equal amounts of daylight.
What is spring and fall?
This part of the Earth experiences the least amount of seasonal changes
What is the equator?
These two locations receive the lowest (most indirect) angles of sunlight at all times.
What are the North and South Poles