Earth’s Rotation

Question 1

Is the earth in inconsistent motion

Answer 1

No the earth is in constant motion

Question 2

What is a revolution?

Answer 2

A revolution is the earths motion around the sun

Question 3

How often a revolution happen?

Answer 3

Once every year of 365 days

Question 4

What is the earths spinning on its axis called?

Answer 4

A rotation

Question 5

How often does a rotation happen

Answer 5

Once every 24 hours

Question 6

What is revolving around the Center of the galaxy

Answer 6

The sun

Question 7

Therefore what does the earth do

Answer 7

The earth follows the sun

Question 8

Fill in my years blank
The______ is most likely moving through__________

Answer 8

The galaxy is most likely moving through space

Question 9

What does the first law of motion prove about the earth

Answer 9

That the earth continues in orbit year after year

Question 10

What is inertia

Answer 10

The tendency for an object to stay in its motion

Question 11

What 2 forces toconsider in the earths orbit is what

Answer 11

The earths forward motion and the suns gravitational pull

Question 12

The equator of the earth has a greater diameter than what?

Answer 12

Any other section of the earth as you near the poles

Question 13

Since the earth is spinning this means what about the equator and poles

Answer 13

The equator has to be traveling at a greater speed than the earth near the poles

Question 14

The earth spins roughly how many miles per hour at the equator?

Answer 14

1000 mph

Question 15

How many mph does the earth spin at 35 degrees N and S latitudes

Answer 15

870 mph

Question 16

The earths different speeds is seen in what 2 things

Answer 16

Global winds and missiles

Question 17

As winds move North and South over the earth they tend to do what?

Answer 17

To tail off to the east or west

Question 18

Why is this?

Answer 18

Because they are traveling at a greater or lesser speed than the earth

Question 19

Just as a quarterback must throw a football in front of a moving receiver, a missive shot from the us to a country where must lead the country

Answer 19

On the equator

Question 20

What is this effect called

Answer 20

the coriolis effect

Question 21

What is a Foucault pendulum?

Answer 21

A swinging ball on a long cord

Question 22

As the ball swings what keeps it in a straight line

Answer 22

It’s inertia

Question 23

As the ball swings in a straight line,what does the earth do

Answer 23

Rotates underneath it

Question 24

The appearance is that the ball swings through a what in what period of time?

Answer 24

Through a full circle every 24 hr/one full rotation

Question 25

What is an ecliptic path?

Answer 25

the apparent path of the sun through the stars

Question 26

What is the apparent travel caused by?

Answer 26

Our traveling around the sun so we ‘see’ different stars behind the sun

Question 27

True/False this is eveidence for only the heliocentric theory

Answer 27

False

Question 28

What is the first best evidence for the earths revolution

Answer 28

Seasons

Question 29

Why is the earth actually closer to the sun in January the reason that we gave winter?

Answer 29

Because the tilt of the earth

Question 30

The earth is tilted how many degrees?

Answer 30

23.5 degrees

Question 31

The axis of the earth always points at where

Answer 31

The North Star

Question 32

Where is North America tilted during winter?

Answer 32

Away from the sun

Question 33

Where is North America tilted during summer

Answer 33

Toward the sun

Question 34

During what 2 seasons is the side of the earth to the sun

Answer 34

Fall and spring

Question 35

During what season is the sun at 23.5 N

Answer 35

The sun is at 23.5 degree N during summer

Question 36

During fall and spring what degree is the sun at

Answer 36

The equator/0 degrees

Question 37

During winter the sun is in what hemisphere name degrees too

Answer 37

Southern hemisphere 23.5 S

Question 38

What is the longest day of the year(Give two names)

Answer 38

Summer solstice on June 21

Question 39

What is September 21 also known as ?

Answer 39

Autumnal equinox

Question 40

What day is the vernal equinox in

Answer 40

March 21

Question 41

What is one thing in common with fall and spring concerning the length of the days

Answer 41

They have a both equal (12 hr)day and night

Question 42

What js December 21 also known as(2)

Answer 42

Winter solstice, shortest day of the year

Question 43

Which seasons are in the Tropic of Cancer?

Answer 43

Summer

Question 44

Which season is in the Tropic of Capricorn

Answer 44

Winter

Question 45

Based on what 2 things does the sun change positions in the sky

Answer 45

Tilt and revolution

Question 46

Which tropic is the farthest north that the suns rays hit directly at what degree

Answer 46

Tropic of Cancer at 23.5 degrees north latitude

Question 47

What is The tropic at Capricorn?

Answer 47

The Tropic for the south that the suns rays hit directly at 23.5° south latitude. 

Question 48

What is another evidence of earth’s rotation

Answer 48

Parallax

Question 49

What is parallax

Answer 49

Parallax is the observed displacement of an object caused by the change of the observer's point of view