Seasons Review

This is a short quiz that I composed using my notes from class.  The answers are found if you scroll below. 

 

Seasons Quiz

 

1.  Why do we have seasons on Earth?

 

2.  What part of the Earth does not have extreme weather changes, such as winter and summer?

 

3.  If the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing summer, the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing their ________.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers:

 

1.  The reason our planet experiences seasons is because it is tilted 23. 5 degrees.  This tilt accounts for the changes in seasons and is the reason why the North & South experience different temperatures.

 

2.  The Earth's equator, because it is not effected by the tilt the way the Northern & Southern Hemispheres are, does not experience the four seasons we in the North are used to.  Instead, the variation of temperatures near the Equator is more so due to the Tropical Rain Belt.

 

3.  Winter.  Whatever season the North is in, the South is experiencing its opposite:  Summer/ Winter or Spring/ Fall.