Atmosphere and Seasons

What causes Earth's seasons?

• Earth's rotation

• Earth's tilt and revolution

• Earth's moon phases

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The amount of water vapor or moisture in the air is known as ____

• humidity

• front

• precipitation

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Which weather tool measures temperature?

• thermometer

• barometer

• wind vane or weather vane

• rain guage

This is a picture of an Earth with no tilt ( zero degrees). Think about what you know of light and angles...what part of the Earth would always experience winter? Choose TWO.

• The Tropic of Cancer

• The Arctic Circle

• The Antarctic Circle

• The Tropic of Capricorn

The Earth is tilted a_______________ degrees on it's axis.

• 22.5

• 23.5

• 21.5

• 23

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Light is responsible for our seasons. Which option best explains why light gives us seasons.

• When we are close to the sun we have summer.

• When we are far from the sun we have winter.

• Light rays bounce off the Earth and get trapped in the atmosphere making it summer.

• The angle of the sun produces more or less intense light which give us seasons.

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This model shows the arrangement of the Earth and Sun producing which season in North America?

• Fall

• Winter

• Summer

• Mud

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This is a picture of an Earth with no tilt ( zero degrees). Think about what you know of light and angles...what part of the Earth would always experience summer?

• The Tropic of Cancer

• The Tropic of Capricorn.

• The Arctic Circle

• The Equator

If our distance from the Sun was the true reason for the seasons, which of the following would also be true (but is not!).

• The entire Earth would experience the same season at the same time.

• We would never have night.

• There would be no moon phases.

• Our moon would not orbit us.

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What layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?

• Troposphere

• Stratosphere

• Mesosphere

• Thermosphere