1. What are the four seasons?
2. Why the Earth cannot rotate upright?
3. What causes the change in seasons?
4. In what season does the Earth receive the greatest amount of the Sun’s direct rays? Least amount of the Sun’s direct rays?
5. If it is summer in the northern hemisphere, what is the season in the southern hemisphere? 6. If the Antarctic (66.5o North) experiences six months of daytime during summer, what does the Arctic (66.5o South) experience during winter?
7. During the vernal equinox, the Northern Hemisphere experiences equal length of daytime and nighttime. What do you think the Southern Hemisphere will experience when it is an autumnal equinox?
8. How will you compare the length of daytime/nighttime during different Earth’s seasons?
Answers & Comments
1.Summer,winter,fall,spring
2.???
3.Because of the tilt of the earth and the planets movement around the sun
4.Winter
5.???
6.???
7.Roughly equal amounts of daytime and nighttime
8.???