1 / 4

Reasons for the Seasons

Reasons for the Seasons. The earth revolves around the sun once every 365 ¼ days. The revolution around the sun is called the orbit . The Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours. Earth is tilted on a 23 ½ degree rotational axis.

hamal
Télécharger la présentation

Reasons for the Seasons

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Reasons for the Seasons

  2. The earth revolves around the sun once every 365 ¼ days. • The revolution around the sun is called the orbit. • The Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours. • Earth is tilted on a 23 ½ degree rotational axis. • Earth rotates counter- clockwise revolves counter-clockwise around the sun. • Day and Night • Light can only travel in a straight line. It cannot travel around the curvature of the Earth to illuminate the other side. • The Earth’s own shadow makes the night side of the Earth dark. • One-half of the Earth is always lit, while the other side is in darkness. • The line between the lit portion of the Earth and the dark portion is called the Terminator. The moon rotates on it’s axis, and revolves around the Earth once every 27.3 days

More Related