Seasons

Front

What describes the tilt of the earth when it is summer in the southern hemisphere?

Back

The northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun

Front

The earth is a tilted planet. What is the degree of tilt?

Back

23.4 degrees

Front

Which of the following best describes equinoxes? Options: The earth is tilted neither toward or away from the sun, The northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, The northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, The southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun

Back

The earth is tilted neither toward or away from the sun

Front

Which of the following best describes solstice? Options: Either the longest or shortest day of the year for a hemisphere, December 21 or 22, June 21 or 22, All of the above

Back

All of the above

Front

What does the earth's tilt cause?

Back

The seasons

Front

What effect does the tilt of the earth have?

Back

It changes the angle that the sun strikes the earth in different land areas.

Front

What season is it in the Southern Hemisphere when it is fall in the Northern Hemisphere? Options: winter, spring, summer, fall

Back

spring

Front

One rotation of Earth is equal to

Back

a day.

Front

What would seasons be like if Earth's axis were straight up and down?

Back

There would be no seasons.

Front

Equinox

Back

equal amount of day light and equal amount of night