Question

What do we call the days when the sun is directly overhead the equator?

Answer 1

Answer:

Equinox

Explanation:

It is an astronomical phenomenon that is repeated twice a year, in summer and winter, and that is caused because the axis on which our planet rotates is slightly inclined with respect to the plane of translation, this is its trajectory around the Sun.

For this reason there are two equinoxes a year, a phenomenon completely opposite to the solstice, but also marks the beginning of the spring and autumn seasons.

The equinoxes occur around March 20 or 21 and September 22 or 23, and it is the days when the Sun is exactly over the equator, which makes day and night more or less the same duration. The word ‘equinox’ comes from Latin and means precisely ‘same night’. In those two moments the part of the Earth closest to the Sun is the equator.