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Vocabulary
Solstices
Equinoxes
True or False
Other
100

What is Revolution

What is the act of the Earth going around the sun

100
What is Winter Solstice
What is the shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year for Northern Hemisphere
100
When does the Vernal Equinox occur in the Northern hemisphere
What is Spring time, March 21
100
True or False: The Earth rotates around the sun
What is False: the Earth revolves around the sun.
100

Why do places near the equator have about the same temperature throughout the year? 

What is they receive about the same amount of sunlight all year round.

200
What is Rotation
What is the act of the Earth rotating around its axis
200
What is Summer Solstice
What is the longest day and shortest night of the year for the Northern Hemisphere
200
When does the Autumnal Equinox occur in the Northern hemisphere
What is Fall time, September 21
200

True or False: One Earth year is 365 1/4 days

What is True

200
True or False: The Northern and Southern hemispheres experience the same seasons at the same time
What is False
300
What event happens every 4 years, adding another calendar day?

What is leap year.

300

True of False: The Winter solstice occurs on the same day for the whole Earth

What is False

300
True or False: When we have an Autumnal Equinox, the Southern hemisphere also is experiencing the Autumnal Equinox
What is False
300

True or False: Places around the Equator experience seasons just like the Northern and Southern hemisphere

What is False

300
What is the degrees of tilt of the Earth
What is 23.5 degrees
400

What is the invisible thing the Earth rotates around

What is axis

400

True or False: During the Summer Solstice, we experience more than 12 hours of daylight

What is True

400

When does the Autumnal Equinox occur in the Southern hemisphere

What is Fall time, March 21

400

True or False: The USA is located in the Northeastern hemisphere if the world

What is False. We are located in the Northwestern hemisphere

400
Why are the northern and southern poles always cold
What is because they only receive indirect sunlight from the sun, the sunlight they receive gets to them on an angle
500
What is tilt
What helps cause the seasons and from the Earth tilting toward or away from the sun, it gives us our solstices
500

What 2 months do our solstice occur?

What is June and December 

500
When does the Vernal Equinox occur in the Southern Hemisphere
What is Spring time, September 21
500

True or False:Latitude and longitude mean the same thing.

What is false. Latitude is for North/South (Up/down) and Longitude is for East/West (horizontal)

500
Why is the equator consistently warm
What is because the Equator is always receiving direct sunlight from the sun