Rotation VS Revolution
Something that happens once every 24 hours
A rotation
The reason time zones exist
The Earth's rotation
The name of the star that never seems to move from its place in the northern hemisphere
Polaris
The lines that go horizontally across the Earth, like the Equator
Latitude lines
The number of seasons we experience in NYC
4
Something that happens every 365 days
A revolution
The time in California if it is noon in NYC
9:00am
The actual shape of the Earth
Oblate Spheroid
The lines that go vertically up and down the Earth, like the Prime Meridian
Longitude lines
The season in Australia when it is summer in NYC
Winter
The object the Earth revolves around
The Sun
The difference in time from one time zone to the next
One hour
The effect that makes things seem to curve as Earth rotates
Coriolis Effect
The two hemispheres NYC exists in
North and West
The reason for the seasons
Earth's tilt
The imaginary line the earth rotates on
The axis
The number of time zones
24
The swinging invention that proved that earth rotates on its axis
Foucault's Pendulum
The altitude of Polaris if you are at a latitude of 88°
88°
The season in the northern hemisphere when Earth is closest to the Sun
Winter
How many degrees the Earth rotates every hour
15°
The time zone New York City is in
Central Time Zone
The direction wind and weather moves in NYC
Northeast
The coordinates of Watertown, NY
44°N, 76°W
The amount of degrees Earth is tilted
23.5°