Arctic Circle

North Pole

Antarctic Circle

South Pole

Summer Solstice

North Pole has 24 hours of daylight for one day

Winter Solstice

Arctic Circle gets no sun at all

Seasons decided by?

Hours of daylight

Tropic of Cancer

northern

Tropic of Capricorn

southern

distance from the sun

northern hemisphere is not farther from the sun in the summer

How much sun does the earth get each day?

The same amount

Day length gets shorter

Everyday after fall

First day of winter in Lansing

9 hours long

definition of fall

we are losing daylight- from 12hrs to 9hrs

after june 21st

days get shorter

waxing

amount of light getting bigger- first half of month

waning

get smaller- second half of the month

crescent

we can see less than half of the lit half

why do we have seasons?

earths tilt

why do we have day/night?

earths rotation

days increasing?

spring and winter

days getting smaller

summer and fall

is one hemisphere always tilted toward the sun?

no

fall

12 hours of sun or less and getting shorter

subsolar point

point where the sun is directly overhead (between the tropics)

sun directly overhead the equator at?

the spring equinox

daylength refers to

long or short path of sun

angle of the sun refers to 

high or low path of sun