Days of the year
The sun is directly over the equator. Daylight and darkness are the same length over the entire Earth. September 23
What is Fall or autumnal equinox?
Line that goes through the Earth and joins the North and South poles. This line is the line which any spinning thing spins around.
What is the axis?
The most southerly point on Earth, is in total darkness during most of May, June, and July.
What is the South pole?
This hemisphere is tilted away from the sun on the June solstice
What is the southern hemisphere?
Part of the globe North of the equator
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
Longest day of the year and the day with the shortest shadows in the Northern hemisphere.
What is Summer Solstice or June 21?
The circling of the Earth around the sun once takes this long.
What is an orbit, 365.25 days
The imaginary horizontal line around the middle of the earth that separates the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This occurs about 91 days (or 3 months) after the winter solstice.
What is the spring equinox?
The Earth's revolution, coupled with the tilt of its rotational axis, causes this phenomenon.
What are seasons?
The day with the most indirect sunlight and the shortest days in the Northern hemisphere.
What is the winter solstice?
The spinning of the Earth on its axis. This also results in day and night.
What is a rotation?
The imaginary line around the earth at 23.5 degrees north latitude. The sun is directly overhead on June 21.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
Someone in Ohio would see the sun at the lowest angle in the sky during this month.
What is December?
What is direct sunlight?
The winter solstice has this kind of sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is indirect sunlight?
Watch out for the tilt!! The Earth's tilt is this many degrees away from straight up and down (the angle of it's tilt).
What is 23.5 degrees?
The imaginary line around the earth at 23.5 degrees south latitude where the sun is directly overhead on December 21.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
When it is summer in the Southern hemisphere, this happens in the Northern hemisphere
What is winter?
When the sun's light is shining obliquely or slanted towards the Earth.
What is indirect sunlight?
The spring equinox, when the sun is directly over the equator and length of day and night are the same around the globe.
What is the march 21?
As viewed from the north pole, the earth rotates in this direction.
What is counter clockwise?
The most northerly point on Earth, is in total darkness during most of November, December, and January.
What is the north pole?
This is about 182 days (or 6 months) from the Fall equinox.
What is the spring equinox?
This hemisphere is pointed neither toward or away from the sun during the spring equinox.
What is the southern or northern hemisphere?