{"id":95241,"date":"2022-03-30T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T11:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=95241"},"modified":"2022-03-30T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T11:08:01","slug":"the-summer-solstice-in-the-northern-hemisphere-happens-on-__________","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/the-summer-solstice-in-the-northern-hemisphere-happens-on-__________\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere happens on: __________?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A. 21 July<br \/>\nB. 22 December<br \/>\nC. 22 March<br \/>\n<strong>D. 21 June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Northern Hemisphere the\u00a0<span id=\"ref137925\"><\/span><a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/summer-solstice-astronomy\">summer solstice<\/a>\u00a0occurs on June 20 or 21 and the\u00a0<span id=\"ref137926\"><\/span><a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/winter-solstice\">winter solstice<\/a>\u00a0on December 21 or 22. The situation is exactly the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where the\u00a0<a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/season\">seasons<\/a>\u00a0are reversed. At the winter solstice the\u00a0<a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/day\">day<\/a>\u00a0is the year\u2019s shortest, and at the summer solstice it is the year\u2019s longest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. 21 July B. 22 December C. 22 March D. 21 June Explanation: In the Northern Hemisphere the\u00a0summer solstice\u00a0occurs on June 20 or 21 and the\u00a0winter solstice\u00a0on December 21 or 22. The situation is exactly the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where the\u00a0seasons\u00a0are reversed. At the winter solstice the\u00a0day\u00a0is the year\u2019s shortest, and at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[27779],"class_list":{"0":"post-95241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-knowledge-mcqs","8":"tag-summer-solstice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}