Posts Tagged ‘equinox’

There are two equinoxes every year—September and March.  On the equinox, the sun shines directly on the equator and results in the 24 hours of the day being split evenly between day and night.  When you look at the three words, “equinox,” “equator,” and “equal,” the prefix “equi” (which means even), makes total sense.  The…