Seasons: Tilt, Orbit, and Temperature
Ever wonder why we have seasons on earth? We used an interactive tool to investigate how the tilt of the earth affects things like temperature, day length, and the path the sun takes through the sky and recorded videos for you.
You can view the four videos of the simulation included at the bottom of the page. These videos give you all the data you need to complete the assignment.
Read this
background information (Links to an external site.)
on planetary tilt and seasons.
You should now have temperature data (cold, cool, mild, hot etc.) during the rotations for inclinations of Earth (23*), Venus (2*), and Uranus (86*).
Watch the final video and record the same data you did in steps 2 and 3.
Turn in your observations of the relative temperatures for all four seasons for these 4 inclinations in a Word document (or similar) as part of your Lab 3 Report. You should include a data table summarizing the results of your 4 virtual experiments for the four seasons.
You will discuss your analysis of these observations in Yellowdig
Discussion
3.
You should write a full lab report that includes: an “
”, a “Materials and Methods”, “
Results
”, “Discussion” sections. This lab report should be between 300 and 600 words. Only the submission of a single Word document is required for this lab report. Please ensure that your document is either a .doc OR .docx file to ensure that we can easily access your file from both a PC and Mac computer.Introduction
Include a hypothesis for the experiment
Materials and Methods (this should be written in past tense and in paragraph format. Write this section as if someone else needs to complete the experiment solely using the information you’ve given here)
What exact methods did you use to complete this experiment?
Results
Inclusion of data table that displays all collected data
Brief summary of results in paragraph format
Discussion
How did tilt impact minimum and maximum temperature
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