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Seasons Why Vocab

Earth's seasons are caused by its tilted axis and orbit around the sun. Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours, with the axis tilted at 23.5 degrees. This causes different parts of Earth to receive direct or indirect sunlight throughout the year, resulting in four seasons - winter, spring, summer and fall. The summer and winter solstices mark the longest and shortest days of the year in each hemisphere, occurring around June 21 and December 21 in the northern hemisphere and vice versa in the southern hemisphere.

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Seasons Why Vocab

Earth's seasons are caused by its tilted axis and orbit around the sun. Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours, with the axis tilted at 23.5 degrees. This causes different parts of Earth to receive direct or indirect sunlight throughout the year, resulting in four seasons - winter, spring, summer and fall. The summer and winter solstices mark the longest and shortest days of the year in each hemisphere, occurring around June 21 and December 21 in the northern hemisphere and vice versa in the southern hemisphere.

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Vocabulary: Seasons: Why do we have them?

Vocabulary Direct sunlight sunlight that strikes Earths surface at close to a 90 angle. Earths axis an imaginary line through the center of Earth that connects the North Pole to the South Pole. o o Earth rotates about its axis once every 24 hours. Earths axis is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees.

Equator an imaginary horizontal line around the middle of Earth. Northern hemisphere the half of Earth north of the equator. North Pole the northernmost point on Earth. Indirect sunlight sunlight that strikes Earths surface at an acute angle (less than 90). Season one of the major divisions of the year, usually based on regular weather changes. o o In most places, the year is divided into four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and autumn (fall). Each season is three months long. In tropical regions, average temperatures do not change much during the year. In these regions, it is common to refer to the rainy season and the dry season.

Solstice one of two days during the year on which the direct rays of the Sun reach the farthest from the equator. Southern hemisphere the half of Earth south of the equator. South Pole the southernmost point on Earth. Summer solstice the first day of summer. o o o The summer solstice is the longest day of the year. North and south of the tropics, it is also the day when the noon Sun is highest in the sky. In the northern hemisphere the summer solstice occurs on or near June 21. In the southern hemisphere the summer solstice occurs on or near December 21.

Winter solstice the first day of winter. o o The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year. It is also the day when the noon Sun is lowest in the sky. In the northern hemisphere the winter solstice occurs on or near December 21.

o In the southern hemisphere the winter solstice occurs on or near June 21.

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