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Revolution vs Rotation
Solstices and Equinoxes
Circle of Illumination
Opposite Seasons in Opposite Hemispheres
MISC
100
When the Earth makes an orbit around the sun in one year.
What is a revolution?
100
The solstice that begins on June 21st
What is the summer solstice?
100
When every place on Earth gets 12 hours of sunlight
What is an equinox?
100
When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere it is this season in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is winter?
100

The sun appears to move from ______ to _________

East to West 

200
When the Earth makes one complete turn on its axis in one day
What is a rotation?
200
The solstice that begins on Decmber 21st
What is the winter solstice?
200
When the poles get 24 hours of sunlight or darkness
What is a solstice?
200
When it is fall in South America it is this season in Ohio.
What is spring?
200
If you go to the beach and look out at the water in Miami Beach, will you see a pretty sunrise or sunset? 

Sunrise (sunset happens on the west coast of Florida

300
When half of the Earth is facing away from the Sun it is this time of the day on that side.
What is night time?
300
When neither the North or South Poles lean toward the sun
What is an Equinox?
300
The place that gets 24 hours of sunlight at the summer solstice.
What is the Arctic Circle?
300
The reason the Southern Hemisphere has summer while Ohio has winter.
What is the Earth's tilt?
300

The measure of the force of gravity on an object 

weight 

400
When half of the Earth is facing the sun it is this time of day on that side.
What is day time?
400

These happen 2x a year when the sun is highest in the sky (once in the northern hemisphere, once in the southern hemisphere)

What is a Solstice?

400
The place on Earth that gets 24 hours of sunlight on the winter solstice.
What is the Antarctic Circle?
400
It is this season in the Southern Hemisphere when the Tropic of Capricorn is getting 90 degree rays.
What is summer?
400

"Every object in the universe attracts every other object" - who said this? 

Isaac Newton 

500
When it is noon on one side of the Earth it is this time on the other side.
What is midnight?
500
The locations that get the Sun's most intense rays at equinoxes and solstices.
What is the equator and the Tropics?
500
The reason some places get 24 hours of sunlight or darkness at the equinoxes.
What is the effect of the poles facing directly towards or away from the sun's rays?
500

According to the theme song from the Big Bang Theory, who would have been sick of us? 

Australopithecus 

500

The strength of gravity depends on _______ and _________

mass; distance between two objects