Seasons
Earth's tilt
Vocabulary
Solstice/Equinox
Various
100
What season is it in the Southern hemisphere?
Summer
100
What causes the seasons?
The earth's tilt
100
What is the equator
The imaginary line around the earth
100
When is the winter solstice? What is the winter solstice?
December 21st. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year when the earth is tilted farthest away from the sun.
100
If it is summer here what season is it in the southern hemisphere?
Winter
200
What causes there to be longer number of hours of light during the summer
Earth tilts toward the sun in summer, so more direct sunlight is received
200
How is the earth tilted when it is winter here?
Away from the sun
200
What is the northern hemisphere? What hemisphere do we live in?
The top half of the earth. The northern hemisphere
200
When is the summer solstice? What is the summer solstice?
The summer solstice is on June 21st. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year when the earth is tilted most toward the sun.
200
If it is Winter here what season is it in the southern hemisphere?
Summer
300
Why is the Equator warmest?
The equator receives the most direct sunlight year round
300
How is the earth tilted when it is summer?
Toward the sun
300
What is the southern hemisphere?
The bottom half of the earth
300
What is the fall equinox?
The fall equinox is when there are 12 hours of day and night. It starts to get colder as the earth begins to tilt away from the sun
300
If it is spring here what season is it in the southern hemisphere?
fall
400
What seasons is it in the North for position B?
Fall
400
How is the earth tilted when it is spring?
Not toward or away from the sun. The earth is moving closer to facing the sun so the weather starts to warm up.
400
What is the earth's orbit?
The path the earth follows around the sun
400
What is the spring equinox
The spring equinox is when there are 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night. The weather starts to warm up at the earth's tilt beings to face the sun.
400
If it is fall here what season is it in the southern hemisphere?
spring
500
What is the relationship between latitude and seasons?
There are only small seasonal changes in temperature at lower latitudes (near the equator) with increasingly larger seasonal changes in temperature at higher latitudes (toward the north and south pole)
500
How is the earth tilted when it is fall?
not towards or away from the sun. The earth is starting to move closer to facing away from the sun so it starts to get colder.
500
What is the earth's rotation
Earth's spin
500
Are the days shorter on the June solstice or the December Solstice? Why?
The December solstice, because the earth is tilted away from the sun.
500
Why don't we have eclipses every month?
The moon's orbit is tilted 5 degrees, so it is not always aligned with Earth or the Sun during the new moon or full moon. / Moon will end up being above or below the Sun/Earth