Earths Movement
Earth _____ every 24 hours
Rotates
What occurs on December 21st each year?
What is the Winter Solstice?
What causes the rise and fall of tides?
The moon and suns gravitational pull
Earth rotation causes what?
Day and Night
the longest day of the year (most hours of sunlight) when the earth is tilted most toward the sun
What is the Summer Solstice?
The Earths _____ causes each location to experience two low tides and two high tides every 24 hours
rotation
Earth completes one ______ around the sun every 365 days
Revolution
September 23 when there are 12 hours of day and night. It starts to get colder as the earth begins to tilt away from the sun
What is the Fall equinox?
What happens to high and low tides during spring tides?
Highest high tides and lowest low tides, making the biggest difference between them
All the planets in our solar system ____ around the sun.
Orbit
True or False: Earths tilt switches direction
False
March 21 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.
What is the Spring Equinox?
What moon phases do Neap tides occur in?
First and Third Quarter moon
Where on Earth experiences 6 months of daytime and then 6 months of darkness
North and South Pole
What is the measure of the earth's tilt?
23.5
What is the imaginary line that passes through the North and South Pole?
Axis
Why do we have the most hours of daylight during the summer solstice?
The sun rises to the highest point in the sky
Why does the Earth, Moon, and Suns alignment cause spring tides?
The gravitational forces of the sun and moon work together to cause spring tides.