No Rhymes, Just Reasons
The length of time for the Earth to complete one revolution.
What is 365-ish 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 long nights and short days is this season.
What is winter?
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 season is the most indirect because the sun appears low in the sky.
What is the Winter?
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.
Hint: Equal rhymes with the name! One is in the spring and one is in the fall.
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 causes day and night on earth.
What is the Earth's rotation?
This is what divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This is what would happen if the Earth had no tilt; sat completely vertical on its' axis?
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!!**
Use your body to correctly demonstrate both of these: the earth rotating on it's axis AND the earth revolving around the sun.
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 you were going on vacation to Australia over Thanksgiving break, what season would it be there?
What is SPRING?
The angle of light is more direct during this season in the southern hemisphere because of the tilt of the earth on its' axis.
What is summer?
**DAILY DOUBLE!!**
These are the months in the year when the angle of sunlight hitting the Southern Hemisphere is the most direct.
What are the summer months?
This is how you describe the tilt of the Earth's axis during the Spring and Fall equinoxes.
What is, neither tilted towards or away from the sun?
This part of the Earth experiences the least amount of seasonal changes.
What is the equator?
The reason we have opposite seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is tilt of the sun on its axis AND the revolution of the earth around the sun.
The side of the earth that is experiencing daylight hours.
What is facing the sun?
The two reasons why we have different seasons on earth.
What are the tilt of the earth on its' axis and the orbit (or revolution) of the earth around the sun.
True or False: The earth's orbit is a circle.
What is false? *it's an ellipse; not a circle.
The location on earth are the suns' rays most direct all year round.
What is the equator?