It’s a world of two halves….
The Earth is a sphere and is split into two halves by an imaginary
line called the ______.
The top half is called the ______
and the bottom half is called the ______
______.
Draw the North Pole and the South Pole on this picture of the Earth. Then add some countries (remember the Earth is titled!).
Finally, label the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Why do we have seasons?
We have seasons because the ______orbits the
______. It takes the Earth ______days (or
one year) to orbit the Sun. Because the Earth is ______
on its axis, at all times of the year one ______
is always tilted either ______or
______from the Sun. In the hemisphere that is tilted
towards the Sun, it is ______because the Sun’s rays
hit that hemisphere more strongly. In the hemisphere that is tilted
away from the Sun it is ______because the Sun’s
rays take longer to reach it and so they lose some of their strength.
That’s why it’s ______in Winter!