Earth's Seasons - Rotation & Revolution

Earth's seasons happen because Earth

• is tilted on an imaginary line called the equator.

• is tilted on an imaginary line called an axis.

• randomly feels like being hotter or colder.

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If it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is ____________ in the Southern Hemisphere.

• fall

• spring

• winter

• summer

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When we are getting DIRECT sunlight, we are in which season?

• winter

• fall

• spring

• summer

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Indirect sunlight means a hemisphere is experiencing which season?

• fall

• summer

• winter

• spring

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If the earth wasn't tilted on its axis, we would...

• experience all kinds of wacky seasons.

• experience the same season all the time.

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During spring and fall, the Earth isn't tilted which is why we experience more mild temperatures.

• True

• False

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Earth completes it's ___________________ around the sun in 365 days.

• rotation

• revolution

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If the Earth did not rotate, one side of the Earth would be in the dark half of the year and light the other half of the year.

• True

• False

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Earth's revolution is also called a(n)

• journey.

• orbit.

• rotation.

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Day and night is caused by the ___________ of Earth on it's axis.

• revolution

• rotation

• orbit

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