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Sun
Earth
Seasons
Solstices
Equinox
100
What color is the sun?
Yellow, gold, or orange.
100
How much of the earth is water?
75%
100
What are the four seasons?
Summer, Spring, Winter, Fall.
100
What is a solstice?
Either the longest or shortest day of the year.
100
What is an Equinox?
When you have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
200
True or False? The sun is a star.
True. The sun is a star.
200
How many days does it take for the earth to revolve around the sun?
365 and a quarter days.
200
What makes the four seasons?
The tilt of the earths axis and the rotation of the earth.
200
What days are the solstices?
June 21 and December 21
200
What days are the equinoxes?
March 21 and September 21
300
How old is the sun?
4.6 billion years old.
300
Why do scientists think the earth is tilted on it's axis?
They think the earth got hit by a huge metier.
300
What is a midnight sun?
In the arctic circle The sun shines for 24 hours during their 6 month summer.
300
In 2015 the summer solstice is on June 21 when will the summer solstice happen in 2016?
June 22
300
What does the spring equinox mark?
The beginning of summer.
400
How hot is the sun?
27 million degrees!
400
What is the exact degree of the tilt of the earth.?
23.4 degrees
400
True or false, seasons are the same when the earth is straight up and down.
False. The earth is only to be tilted on its axis.
400
True or False, the sun shines directly on the topic of cancer on the June solstice.
True!
400
What is another name for the fall equinox?
Autumnal equinox
500
True or false, the distance of the sun to the earth affects the seasons.
False.
500
When its summer in the northern hemisphere, what season is it in the southern hemisphere?
Winter
500
What is an ecliptic?
An ecliptic is an imaginary line going around of the sun that the earth and other planets orbit on. This is part of the reasons for the seasons.
500
During the December solstice, what does the sun shine on?
The tropic of capricorn.
500
What does equinox mean?
Equal night.