Seasons

What does earth's constant rotation cause us to experience? Light from the sun falls on one half of the spinning Earth. This half has day. The other, darker half has night. How long does it take earth to complete one rotation? 24 hours From which direction does the sun rise? East From which direction does the sun set? West What do you think would happen if the Earth stopped rotating? How would this effect human life? I think it would make half of the earth always in the summer and the other half to be winter and one half day and one half night. This would cause half of us to be active at night and the other half active at the day time only. Also maybe the half turning to the sun would turn to a ball of fire!

Key Concept about Earth's rotation: I think the key concept of the earth's rotation is that the rotation of the earth causes day and night and with out the rotation we would be either sleeping all our life or awake all our life.


 * Direct Light || Angled or Indirect light ||
 * more heat || less heat ||

Key Concept: Which produces more heat? Which produces less?

Northern Hemisphere


 * winter || spring || summer || fall ||
 * indirect || equal || direct || equal ||

Southern Hemisphere


 * winter || spring || summer || fall ||
 * direct || equal || indirect || equal ||

Is the Earth's tilt always pointing the the right or the left? It points to the right.

Do the Northern and Southern Hemispheres ever experience the same season? What do you notice about their seasons? No they are always the oposite.