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What is rotation?
turning or spinning of a body on its axis
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What are the two primary motions of earth?
rotation and revolution
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What is revolution?
motion of a body, such as a planet or moon, along a path around some point in space
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What is axil precession?
another very slow motion
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mean solar days averages how many hours?
24 hours
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Earth has two types of days, which are?
mean solar day and sidereal day
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What is mean solar day?
the time interval from one noon to the next
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What is sidereal day?
the time it takes for earth to make one complete rotation
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What is ecliptic?
the apparent annual path of the sun against the backdrop of the celestial sphere
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sider=?
sider=star
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Aphelion's distance occurs what day?
July 4th
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When has the sun reached its highest point in the sky?
noon
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What is the plane of ecliptic?
the imaginary plane that connects points along the ecliptic
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Revolution: each day, this apparent movement amounts to a distance equal to about ___ degree or about ___ the suns width
one, twice
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perihelion's distance occurs what day?
January 3rd
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What are the main consequences of earths rotation?
day and night
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What type of effect does precession have on the seasons?
minor effect
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t/f axis points continually changes
true
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helios=?
sun
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What does peri mean in perihelion?
peri=near
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What is similar to the "wobble" of a spinning top?
the axis that traces a circle on the sky
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How is sidereal measured by?
measured in solar time
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Sidereal has a period of how many hours?
23 hours
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Earth axis is tilted at how many degrees?
23 1/2
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How many minutes shorter is sidereal day than the mean solar day?
4 minutes
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