Warm Up (JUST write it down) “New Unit” Create a Divider in your Notebook. Label it : Unit: 5 Cycles (Lunar and Seasons) First Page: Assignment 1 Warm Up (JUST write it down) What causes day and night? What is the name of the imaginary line that crosses the earth through its poles? Explain how the Earth Rotates?

COMPARE YOUR ANSWERS YOU HAVE 1.5 MINUTES

What causes day and night? The rotation of the earth map

What is the name of the imaginary line that crosses the earth through its poles? The Earth’s Axis Tilted at 23.5°

3. Explain how the Earth rotates? Spins on its own axis One Full rotation every 24 hours Counterclockwise

Make a pretty drawing, do your best!!!!! DRAW AN ILLUSTRATION REPRESENTING THE EARTH SPINNING. Make sure it has day and night Include the Axis and label it Label the North pole and the South pole Take about 7 lines in your notebook YOU HAVE 4 MINUTES

Rotation and Revolution

Rotation on the Earth’s Axis Causes Day and Night The spinning is called ROTATION The direction of rotation is counterclockwise 24hrs a day http://vortex.plymouth.edu/sun/sun.html

Revolution and the Tilt on the Earth’s axis Causes Seasons Revolution: The motion of Earth around the Sun. One revolution takes about 365 1/4 days, or one year, to complete Seasons Video

Lets draw it! (Seasons, day and Night, Axis, Poles

Uneven Heating of the Earth Assignment #3 Warm up Name the season when the Axis is pointing towards the sun Name the season when the axis is pointing away from the sun Which seasons have an even amount of daytime and nightime?

Draw a representation of the summer

Draw a representation of the Winter

NEED TO KNOW As the earth revolves around the sun, it’s actually about 5 million miles closer in January than it is in July.  Despite being closer, Houston is much colder in January than in July.  Why?

Video Seasons with Bill Nye

Because the Earth is tilted, different parts of the planet get different amounts of sunlight at different times of the year.

Sun is More Spread towards the poles Sun is less spread out near Equator

All the jelly in one little area Ecuator Concentrated, Strong All the jelly in one little area Poles The jelly is spread out on a bigger area Spread out, Weak

Strong, Hot Weak, Cold

The more sunlight that reaches the Earth’s Surface the warmer that part becomes.

The Equator receives almost the same amount of light all year long The Equator receives almost the same amount of light all year long. About 12 hours of day, and 12 of night

Houston

Ecuator

INTERACTIVE MR. OLIVARES 2016