Earth SeasonsShadowsGrabBag
Question Column How long does it take for the Earth to make one rotation? Which direction does the earth rotate?
Answer Column hours or 1 day Rotates-Counterclockwise
Question Column How long does it take the Earth to make one revolution? Which direction does the earth revolve around the sun?
Answer Column days or 1 year The Earth revolves around the sun Counterclockwise
Question Column The earth revolves around what?
Answer Column Sun
Question Column Why do the moon and the Sun appear move across the sky?
Answer Column The Earth rotates and is spinning on its axis.
Question Column The Earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees. How does that make Earth a unique or special planet? The tilt of the axis causes ____________.
Answer Column It allows for the changing seasons
Question Column Name the seasons in order beginning with summer?
Answer Column Summer, fall, winter, spring
Question Column Arrows on the Earth’s orbit represent what?
Answer Column The revolution or movement of the Earth.
Question Column If it is fall and the Earth revolves for 1 year, what season will it be?
Answer Column fall
Question Column Describe the orientation of the Northern Hemisphere in the winter and summer.
Answer Column Summer – Northern Hemp. Is angled toward the sun. Direct sunlight Winter – Northern Hemp. Is angled away from the sun. Indirect sunlight
Question Column What 2 things cause the seasons?
Answer Column Tilt of the Earth 2. the Revolution around the sun.
Question Column What causes a shadow?
Answer Column Objects that block the sun’s rays from hitting the Earth Earth is rotating
Question Column When are the shadows the shortest? When are shadows the longest?
Answer Column Mid Day- shortest Early morning (dawn) and evening (dusk)- Longest
Question Column Explain the altitude of the sun in the summer? Explain the altitude of the sun in the winter? What do you know about their shadows?
Answer Column Winter- Altitude is lower-Longer Shadow Summer- Altitude is higher- shorter shadow
Question Column Why do the size of shadows change? Give a specific example of the length and direction of a shadow change
Answer Column Rotation of the Earth Sun in East- Shadow in West Sun in East 8 AM shadow long in West Sun in West-Shadow in West Sun in West 2 PM- Shadow is Shorter in East
Question Column If you had a 3 meter pole and you placed one on the equator and one in your backyard in Solon, which pole will have a longer shadow at 7 AM on June 22? Why?
Answer Column The pole in Solon will be longer because the sun’s rays are at a lower angle.
Question Column Name a characteristic of the Earth
Answer Column Answers will vary
Question Column What would happen if the earth stopped revolving?
Answer Column We would experience the same season.
Question Column What 3 things does the Earth’s atmosphere do for the Earth?
Answer Column Protects us from the sun’s harmful rays, traps in heat, allows us to breathe, protects from falling debris
Question Column What is the largest and closest star to us?
Answer Column The Sun
Question Column What part of the Earth receives the most direct sunlight? What part of the Earth receives the least?
Answer Column The Equator receives the most direct The north and south poles receive the least.
Question Column If it is summer in Australia (southern hemisphere), what season will it be in China (northern hemisphere)?
Answer Column winter
Question Column As the angle and altitude of the sun’s rays become higher in the sky, what happens to the temperature?
Answer Column Warmer temps.
Question Column What city in the United States would have the least intense sunlight on New Year’s Day? Boston, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles
Answer Column Boston
Question Column What causes the planets to orbit the Sun?
Answer Column Gravity
Question Column During which season does the sun’s angle cover the most area? Draw the sun’s rays.
Answer Column Winter – showing a low angle.
Explain the difference between rotation and revolution.
Rotation is the Earth Spinning on its Axis and it causes Day and Night Revolution- Is the Earth Moving Around the Sun- Is One Reasons WE have Seasons