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The Seasons: Questions

The document explains the causes of the four seasons, detailing how the Earth's tilt and orbit around the Sun affect sunlight distribution. It describes the summer and winter solstices, as well as the equinoxes, which mark significant points in the seasonal cycle. Additionally, it includes questions related to the content to assess understanding of the material.

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The Seasons: Questions

The document explains the causes of the four seasons, detailing how the Earth's tilt and orbit around the Sun affect sunlight distribution. It describes the summer and winter solstices, as well as the equinoxes, which mark significant points in the seasonal cycle. Additionally, it includes questions related to the content to assess understanding of the material.

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Name: Subject: Year 5 Science


Date: Sheet: The seasons

The Seasons

The four seasons are caused by the Earth changing relationship to the Sun, but before we get into the details,
let’s have a quick look at the Earth.

Earth’s axis is an imaginary line that runs through the centre of the Earth from top to bottom. Earth makes a
complete spin around this line every day. The equator is the imaginary line that runs through the middle of the
Earth, splitting it into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

The Earth orbits the Sun every 365 days and while it does this, it also spins on its axis every 24 hours. Because
the Earth’s axis is slightly tilted, each part of the planet is getting a different amount of light. This difference
creates the seasons. The hemisphere tilted towards the Sun will have more sunlight, it will be summer; the
hemisphere leaning away from the Sun will have less sunlight, it will be winter. Areas north and south of the
equator have opposite seasons. When it’s winter in the north it’s summer in the south. Areas near the equator
aren’t affected by this tilt, they get the same amount of sunlight all year round. This is why they do not have four
seasons like the rest of the world, they are warm all year round or they just have two seasons, a wet one and a
dry one.

The day when Earth is tilted most towards the Sun is called the summer solstice, it is the longest and sunniest
day of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere it is on June 21st). The day when Earth is turned furthest from the
Sun is the winter solstice, it is the shortest and darkest day of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere it is
December 21st). There are two days of the year where the days and nights have the same amount of hours,
these are the equinoxes, they are normally on September 22nd and March 21st.

Questions

1. What is the time when day and night are of equal length? ______________________________
2. What is the longest day of the year called? ______________________________
3. What is the shortest day of the year called? ______________________________
4. Which month does the longest day of the year occur? ______________________________
5. Which month does the shortest day of the year occur? ______________________________
6. What happens when the area in which you live tilts away from the Sun? _____________________________
7. When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, which season will it be in the Southern Hemisphere?
______________________________
8. How long does the Earth take to orbit the Sun? ______________________________

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