Seasons

• Solar Eclipse

  When the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth, it makes a shadow on the Earths surface.

  If you are standing in the Umbra, you see a total Solar Eclipse.

  If you are standing in the Penumbra, you see a partial Solar Eclipse

  
• Luna Eclipse

  When the Earth comes between the Moon and the Sun.

  We don't see eclipses every month because of the tilt of the Moons orbit.
• The Earth is divided up into two parts. The Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
• The imaginary line between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere is called 'The Equator'.
• The tilt of Earth (23.4 degrees) is responsible for the different seasons.
• The Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun - The suns rays are spread over a shorter area.
• As the earth orbits the sun on its tilted axis


  1. Different hemispheres face the sun at different times

  2. This causes the seasons
• Seasons


  • Days are longer during the summer
  • Days and shadows are shorter during the winter
  • Weather is warmer during the summer
  • Weather is colder during the winter