Summer and Winter Solstice


 
 
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Summer and Winter Solstice

·   The nights are longer than the days. This position of the Earth is called the summer solstice. On 22nd December, the Tropic of Capricorn receives direct rays of the sun as the South Pole tills towards it. As the sun’s rays fall vertically at the Tropic of Capricorn, a larger portion of the southern Hemisphere with longer days and shorter nights. The reverse happens in the Northern Hemisphere. This position of the earth is called the winter solstice.

  On 23rd September, it is autumn season in the Northern Hemisphere and spring season in the Southern /hemisphere. The opposite is the case on 21st march. When it is spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.

Thus, you find that there are days and nights and changes in the seasons because of the rotation and revolution of the earth respectively.

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Question : 1

The longest day in southern hemisphere occurs on:

Right Option : D
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Question : 2

Christmas is celebrated in summer in ______________

Right Option : C
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Question : 3

Countries in the Southern Hemisphere celebrate Chirstmas in ________ season.

Right Option : D
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