Earth's tilt and revolution
The invisible line that separates the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Equator?
This happens during June and is the longest day of the year.
What is the summer solstice?
This directly causes seasons.
What is the Earth's tilt?
This is what influences tides the most.
What is the moon?
Earth is the ______ planet from the Sun.
What is the 3rd?
The length of time it takes for the Earth to make one revolution around the sun.
What is a year?
This occurs in September, and this day has equal amounts of daylight and nighttime hours.
What is the Fall Equinox?
This causes the seasons to CHANGE.
What is Earth's revolution?
This kind of tide has the highest high tides and the lowest low tides.
What is a Spring tide?
The galaxy we are in.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
The Earth is tilted at 20 degrees. (True of False)
False
This occurs when the Earth's axis is tilted directly towards or away from the sun.
What is a solstice?
Explain what the Earth would look like (from space) if we were in summer right now.
The northern hemisphere would be tilted toward the sun.
This kind of tide does not have very high or low tides.
What is a Neap tide?
This is at the center of our galaxy.
What is a black hole?
This causes night and day on Earth.
What is Earth's rotation?
This occurs when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, and day and night are equal.
What is an Equinox?
Winters are cooler than summers because the Earth is farther away from the sun. (True or False)
False
This is what the tide occurs when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are in a straight line.
What is a Spring Tide?
This is what most of space consists of.
What is empty space?
The path an object follows around another object.
What is an orbit?
The number of solstices and equinoxes do we have in a year.
What are 2 solstices and 2 equinoxes?
The season we would be in if the Earth were not tilted away or toward the sun.
What is Spring or Fall?
This tide occurs when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are at a right angle.
Name the planets in order.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune