Vocabulary
What is Revolution?
What is the act of the Earth going around the sun
What is Winter Solstice?
What is the shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year for Northern Hemisphere
When does the Equinox occur in the Northern hemisphere?
What is Spring time, March 21
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.
What is Rotation?
What is the act of the Earth rotating around its axis
What is Summer Solstice?
What is the longest day and shortest night of the year for the Northern Hemisphere
When does the Equinox occur in the Northern hemisphere?
What is Fall time, September 21
True or False: One Earth year is 365 1/4 days
What is True
What is leap year.
True of False: The Winter solstice occurs on the same day for the whole Earth
What is False
True or False: Places around the Equator experience seasons just like the Northern and Southern hemisphere
What is False
What is the degrees of tilt of the Earth?
What is 23.5 degrees
What is the invisible thing the Earth rotates around?
What is axis
True or False: During the Summer Solstice, we experience more than 12 hours of daylight
What is True
When does the Equinox occur in the Southern hemisphere?
What is Fall time, March 21
True or False: The USA is located in the Northeastern hemisphere if the world
What is False. We are located in the Northwestern hemisphere
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
What is tilt?
What helps cause the seasons and from the Earth tilting toward or away from the sun, it gives us our solstices
What 2 months do our solstice occur?
What is June and December
When does the Equinox occur in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is Spring time, September 21
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)
Why is the equator consistently warm?
What is because the Equator is always receiving direct sunlight from the sun