Name: Christian Perkins _____________ Class Period ______________ Date

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SEASONS WEBQUEST
Click on the following link to answer the following questions:
http://www.astronomy.org/programs/seasons/
1. During which season is the earth closest to the sun, summer or winter? ______________
Scroll down to the Direct Energy vs. Indirect Energy picture of the flashlights.
2. Direct energy always produces ___short____________ shadows while indirect energy
creates _______long____________ shadows.
3. Why is this important to how warm we feel?
_you will have more heat when it is short it will be hotter in the short shadow wile in the long
shadow it will be winter colder
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Click on the following link to answer more questions.
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/sun/sun.html

Click on Why are there seasons?
1. Explain the difference between an equinox and a solstice:
Equinox is the 2 days in the that have same amount of day and night time 12 hours of day
light 12 hours of night solstice is the short dayt in winter and the long day in summer
2. How many of each do we have each year? _____________
Name them:
Solstices: Equinoxes:
a. summer a spring
b. winter b. fall

Click on Rotation
1. In which direction does the Earth spin on its axis? Conter clock wise
__________________________ Click on Solstices
2. In which direction is the Northern Hemispere tilted during mid-Spring and summer?
__it is tilted to the sun______________________________________________
3. How does this effect the amount of daylight we have during this time?
_________longer day light hours because more sunlight
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4. During what time of year does the North Pole experience 24 hours of sunlight?
____fall solstices_________________________________________________________
South pole? ___spring
solstices_________________________________________________________
Click on Our Orbit
5. Draw and label the Earths position in relation to the sun during each of the 4 seasons:














Click on Temperatures

1. During what season does the Northern Hemisphere receive more concentrated energy
from the sun? (look at the flashlight example for a clue)
____________________summer______________________________________________
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2. During what season (time of year) does the Sun have to travel through more atmosphere?
____________________________________summer_______________
If you were having to explain the reasons for the seasons to a 5
th
grader who is convinced that
seasons come from being closer or further away from the Sun explain how you would do it
below: (Include at least 3 things you learned from ) think of it as a pencil in the middle of
earth then tilt it to the left then keep it in that spout then take it around the sun in summer it
will be the most away from the sun because the tilt it it on points the northern hemisphere
right in the path of the suns direct rays