2/15/23

Question 1

What is the winter and summer solstice?

Answer 1

Winter - marks shortest day of year
Summer - marks longest day of year

Question 2

Dates of the winter and summer solstice?

Answer 2

Winter - December 21st
Summer - June 21st

Question 3

What is the Spring and Fall Equinox?

Answer 3

When both days have equal amount of day and night.

Question 4

When is the spring and fall equinox?

Answer 4

Spring - March 21st
Fall - September 21st

Question 5

When is the Perihelion and Aphelion?

Answer 5

Perihelion - January 4th
Aphelion - July 6th

Question 6

What is latitude?

Answer 6

The distance N-S of the Equator

Question 7

What is Longitude?

Answer 7

The distance East - West of the Prime Meridian

Question 8

Latitude for the equator?

Answer 8

0*

Question 9

Latitude for Prime Meridian?

Answer 9

51.5* N

Question 10

Tropical boundary coordinates?

Answer 10

23.5* S 23.5* N

Question 11

Polar Zone Coordinates?

Answer 11

66* & 90*

Question 12

Coordinates for prime meridian?

Answer 12

51.5* North

Question 13

Coordinates for the International Date Line?

Answer 13

180* west

Question 14

What is the difference in degrees between each time zone?

Answer 14

15*

Question 15

What is GMT and what does it stand for?

Answer 15

GMT is the name for the timezone England follows. GMT stand for Greenwich Mean Time.

Question 16

What is GMT also referred to as?

Answer 16

Coordinated Universal Time

Question 17

What happens when you move east of the prime meridian?

Answer 17

You gain an hour.

Question 18

What happens when you move west of the prime meridian?

Answer 18

You lose an hour

Question 19

How many time zones are there? And how was this figured out?

Answer 19

24 time zones / 365 ÷ 24 = 15º

Question 20

How does the solstices depend on which hemisphere your in?

Answer 20

The 2 hemispheres are opposite in solstices.

Question 21

Which climate zone has the most consistent weather and why?

Answer 21

The tropics because they get more exposure to the sun from the tilt of the earth and don’t receive seasons.

Question 22

What causes seasons?

Answer 22

Tilt of earth, plants/animals, amount of daylight.

Question 23

Rotation vs Revolution and which direction do they do so?

Answer 23

Rotation - spinning
Revolution - orbit
Direction - counterclockwise

Question 24

What is the earth divided into?

Answer 24

Even increments

Question 25

Why is the earth divided into even increments?

Answer 25

Navigation, organization, distances/locations