Observable Patterns Over a Year

What type of patterns occur over a year?

• Constellations change

• Seasons change

• Daylight hours change

• Shadow length changes

• All of the Above

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What pattern do you notice develops, over a year, with daylight hours?

• Daylight hours increase throughout the year

• Daylight hour decrease throughout the year

• Daylight our increase through July and then start to decrease

• Daylight hours start to decrease through July and then start to increase.

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How do patterns differ in the south eastern hemisphere?

• They are the same

• We experience opposite seasons being in the Northwestern Hemisphere

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The sun is highest in which season

• summer

• winter

• fall

• spring

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The Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun in which season.

• Summer

• winter

• autumn

• spring

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In which hemisphere are shadows shorter in the summer and longer in the winter.

• Southern Hemisphere

• Northern Hemisphere

The tilt of the Earth on its equator, causes the N Hemisphere to have more direct (over head) light in the summer and less direct light in the winter.

• True

• False

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The fact that the N Hemisphere gets more direct sunlight in the summer and less direct sunlight in the winter also causes the seasons.

• True

• False

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The ________ of Earth on its axis every 24 hours is responsible for the patterns that we see repeating every day.

• axis

• equator

• rotation

• revolution

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The __________ of Earth around the sun every 365 days is responsible for the patterns that we see repeating every year.

• Rotation

• revolution

• change

• axis

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