Vocabulary
An imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and poles.
What is Earth's axis?
Earth's tilting on its axis causes these.
What are seasons?
The season when the Sun is highest in the sky at solar noon.
What is summer?
One of four periods of the year on Earth.
What are seasons?
Globes are made to lean at a 23.5 degree angle to demonstrate this.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
This is the date that the most amount of daylight will occur in Central New York.
What is June 21st?
The point at which the Sun is the highest in the sky during the day.
What is solar noon?
If Earth's wasn't tilted on its axis, this would happen.
Earth would experience the same season all year long.
Shadows change length during the day because of this. (Your answer must have three important points.)
What is the Earth rotates on its axis in a 24-hour period.
This causes the Sun to change position in the sky which changes the angle the Sun's light strikes Earth.
This change in angles cause shadow lengths to change. Low angles create long shadows, and high angles create short shadows.
A form of energy that reaches Earth from the Sun.
What is solar energy?
When it is _________ in the northern hemisphere, it is summer in the ________ hemisphere.
What is winter and southern?
There are three important things to know about why Earth has seasons.
1.What is Earth has seasons because its axis is tilted as it revolves around the Sun?
2. When the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun, we have summer.
3. When the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun, we have winter.
Bodies in our solar system orbit the Sun.
What is a heliocentric orbit?
This explains why there is a greater chance of precipitation falling as snow in January than in March in Central New York.
What is the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun in January, so Central New York gets indirect rays from the Sun, making temperatures colder.
The surface temperature of the Earth is often the highest at this time of day. Explain why.
What is mid- to late- afternoon? This is after solar noon, and the surface has had a longer period of time to absorb the Sun's rays and heat the atmosphere.