Seasonal Tilt

List the four seasons starting with spring.

• Summer, Fall (Autumn), Winter, Spring
• Spring, Summer, Fall (Autumn), Winter
• Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (Autumn)

Earth’s ____ and ____ around the sun cause the changing seasons

• tilt and orbit
• Axis and rotation
• tilt and sun
• axis and orbit

How long does it take the earth to revolve completely around the sun? 

• 24 hours
• 1 year/ 365 days
• 1 month

How does the tilt of the Earth‘s axis affect the number of hours of sunlight that are hitting the Earth?

• There is the same amount of sunlight every day of the year

• There are more hours of sunlight when the Earth is tilted toward the Sun

• There are more hours of sunlight when the Earth is tilted away from the sun.

• Sunlight hours are totally random

When it is night on one side of the Earth, what is it on the other side of the Earth?

• night
• day

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What happens when the area in which you live tilts AWAY from the sun?

• It is summer.
• It is spring.
• It is winter.
• It is fall.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Which season has the least amount of daylight hours?

• Winter
• Spring
• Summer 
• Fall

The Earth spinning around is called 'rotating'. This give us...

• Day and night

• Seasons and Years

• Moon Phases

• Eclipses