Notes From Research
- Day and night. The Earth is a sphere, or ball, which spins round and round as it travels around the sun. ... The side facing away is cooler and darker, and experiences night. Because the Earth is constantly spinning, the line between day and night is always moving around the planet.
- The Earth experiences days and nights as a result of the planet spinning on its axis. As the planet spins, the part that is facing the sun experiences day, while it is night for the part facing away from the sun
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Reflection Questions
| Answer 1. Shadows are made when the sun is outside and to the side of you then on the other side. 2. No shadow can not be made inside the classroom because you need the sun in order to make a shadow. 3. Yes, they do change during the day by the lenght of how long the shadow is. 4. When it was early in the morning the poles shadow was long, around noon the shadow was very short, and and late in the afternoon the shadow was also long like in the early morning. 5. It tells me that the shadow may be longer or shorter depending on the sun's position. 6. No Answer |