Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 190 and 191 from Next Page Science KS3 Complete. Accompanying PowerPoint and word searches available for free from the website.
This exercise covers:
• What causes a day and a year: 24 hrs and 365.25 days
• A leap year
• Earth’s orbit having an elliptical shape
• Earth’s tilt as the cause of the seasons
• A pictorial illustrating summer (solstice), winter (solstice), spring (equinox) and autumn (equinox)
• An explanation explaining why light intensity changes from winter to summer using torches to represent how the same amount of light from the sun can be more or less intense
• Earth’s path across the sky (northern hemisphere)
• How earth’s spin causes the sun to rise in the east and set in the west
• An exercise on plotting the average hours of daylight for each month
• A matching the statements exercise
• An exercise on what it would be like in the summer (continual daylight) and winter (continual night time) at the north pole
• Amazing WHAT? facts
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