Season Change and Latitudes

Q. Dakshinayanam is marked by days in India when compared to Utharayanam.

1. longer
2. shorter
3. nearly equal

Q. Select all that is true for Utharayanam.

1. It is the northwards movement of the Sun from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer.
2. It is marked by the gradual increase in the length of the day in India.
3. It is due to the Southern Hemisphere tilted towards the Sun.
4. It contains the Summer Solstice on June 21.

Q. What marks the gradual increase in the length of the day in India?

1. Dakshinayanam
2. Vasantha
3. Utharayanam
4. Sarat

Q. Sort the following in chronological order of occurrence in a given year starting from January (in the Northern Hemisphere).

1. Summer solstice
2. Winter solstice
3. Spring equinox
4. Autumn equinox

Q. When does the Northern Hemisphere get its summer solstice?

1. March 21
2. June 21
3. September 21
4. December 21

Q. Pair the seasons of the Southern Hemisphere to the apparent movement of the Sun in those seasons.

NOTE: ToCn stands for Tropic of Cancer and ToCp stands for Tropic of Capricorn.

1. Autumn
2. ToCp to Equator
3. Winter
4. Equator to ToCp
5. Spring
6. ToCn to Equator
7. Summer
8. Equator to ToCn

Q. Pair the latitudes with their corresponding names.

1. 23.5 N latitude
2. Antarctic Circle
3. 66.5 N latitude
4. Tropic of Capricorn
5. 66.5 S latitude
6. Tropic of Cancer
7. 23.5 S latitude
8. Arctic Circle

Q. Elena, a PhD student at the Department of Astrophysics in a well-known university in Scotland, was tracking the apparent motion of the Sun for her experiments. On one weekend, she went to meet her non-university friends. They were making fun of her saying that she was very absent-minded and didn't pay much attention to things around her. To prove their point, they asked her what season they were currently in? Just like her friends had expected, she wasn't quick to answer. But she remembered from her experimental observations that in the previous season, the apparent motion of the Sun was from the Equator to Tropic of Cancer and she was correctly able to predict the current season. What was her answer?

1. Spring
2. Summer
3. Autumn
4. Winter

Q. Select the correct option based on the following statements.
Statement 1: Earth’s revolution makes the Sun travel from East to West.
Statement 2: Earth’s rotation makes the Sun travel from North to South throughout the year.

1. Both statements are false.
2. Both statements are true.
3. Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
4. Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.

Q. Hayley, who lives in York, England, decided to take a one-year break from work and go on a yearlong tour of the Americas. She planned on first covering Central and South America before finally completing her tour in North America. Her trip was to start on 1st October and end on 23rd July the following year. While she was packing for the trip, she was trying to figure out the seasons in the respective parts of the world when she would visit them. She noticed that exactly six months after starting her trip, she would be in Argentina. Can you help Hayley figure out what season Argentina would be having when she would be there?

1. Spring
2. Summer
3. Autumn
4. Winter