Know Much About Seasons? Take This Quiz To Find Out!
A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of Earth's orbit around the Sun and Earth's axial tilt relative to the ecliptic plane. Know Much About Seasons? Take this quiz to find out!
- 1.The earth is a tilted planet. What is the degree of tilt?
- A.
Approximately 25 degrees
- B.
Exactly 25 degrees
- C.
23.5 degrees
- D.
90 degrees with respect to the sun
- 2.What does the earth's tilt cause?
- A.
The seasons
- B.
Day and Night
- C.
Tsunamis
- D.
Earthquakes
- 3.What is the shape of the earth's orbit around the sun?
- A.
Circular
- B.
Elliptical (slightly oval)
- C.
Square to rectangular
- D.
Variable and changes with the seasons (no particular shape)
- 4.Which of the following best describes the tilt of the earth during the spring and fall equinoxes?
- A.
The earth is tilted away from the sun (Northern hemisphere)
- B.
The earth is tilted neither toward or away from the sun (tilt is side to side)
- C.
The earth is tilted toward the sun (Northern hemisphere)
- D.
The earth is not tilted during spring and fall
- 5.Which of the following best describes the tilt of the earth when it is summer in the southern hemisphere?
- A.
The northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
- B.
The northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun
- C.
The norther hemisphere is tilted neither toward or away from the sun
- D.
Why are you talking about the northern hemisphere when you asked about the southern hemisphere?
- 6.What effect does the tilt of the earth have?
- A.
It changes the angle that the sun strikes the earth in different land areas
- B.
It causes the earth to be farther away from the sun at different times of the year
- C.
When the earth is tilted away from the sun we have night
- D.
When the earth is tilted away from the sun we have day
- 7.Which of the following best describes equinoxes?
- A.
The earth is tilted neither toward or away from the sun
- B.
The norther hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
- C.
The northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun
- D.
The southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
- 8.Which of the following best describes solstice.
- A.
Either the longest or shortest day of the year for a hemisphere
- B.
December 21 or 22
- C.
June 21 or 22
- D.
All of the above
- 9.The Arctic Circle receives several days each year where the sun never rises.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.Each day past the summer solstice, the days get longer and longer until the fall equinox.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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