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Lesson 1 Unit 3
Earth's Days, Years, and Seasons
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Rotation | The spinning of a body, such as a planet, on it's axis. |
| Day | The time it takes a planet to complete one full rotation on it's axis. |
| Revolution | The motion of a body that travels around another body in space. |
| Year | Earth completes a full revolution around the sun in 365 1/4 days, also know as a year. |
| Season | Each season is characterized by a pattern of temperature and other weather trends. |
| Equinox | At an equinox, sunlight shines equally on the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. |
| Solstice | At a solstice, the area of sunlight is at a maximum in one hemisphere and at a minimum in the other hemisphere. |