Seasons

3. When day and night are of equal duration.The sun is directly above the equator on these two days.
6. If you live in the middle latitudes of the hemisphere, you would experience four distinct seasons, while if you lived at the equator or poles, you would almost experience the ____ season all year.
7. Different ________ receive different amounts of sunlight throughout the year.
11. The Earth’s _____ is tilted 23.5 degrees. This tilt gives us the seasons.
12. The longest or shortest day of the year.
13. Number of seasons in a year.
14. Caused by the Earth’s axis and the Earth’s ecliptic plane.

1. The first equinox in the year.
2. Sunlight doesn’t evenly hit the _______ and the southern hemispheres.
4. Seasons are also caused by the Earth’s ______ surface.
5. The scientist that proposed that the Sun, not the Earth was the center of the universe.
8. Some areas of the Earth directly receive the Sun’s rays, such as the _________.
9. Others receive ____ of the Sun’s rays because there is more of the Sun’s rays spread over a larger area.
10. The Earth’s spin also creates ___
15. and ______.