Rotation
This is tilted 23.5 degrees.
What is the Earth's axis?
The amount of time it takes to revolve around the sun.
365.26 days
Direction the sun rises and sets on the Equinox.
What is East to West?
The formula for eccentricity.
What is distance between the foci/length of major axis?
The amount of Earth the is illuminated by the sun at all times.
What is half?
The amount of time it takes Earth to rotate.
What is 23 hours 56 min and 4 sec?
The name for the model of the solar system where planets revolve around the sun.
What is heliocentric?
The location the sun is directly overhead on the equinoxes.
What is the equator?
The planet with the most eccentric orbit.
What is Mercury?
The Earth motion responsible for seasons.
What is revolution?
Where there is always and equal amount of daylight and dark hours.
What is the equator?
The two reasons we have seasons.
What is revolution and the tilt of the Earth?
The direction a shadow is located relative to the position of the sun.
What is opposite of the sun (or north)?
The planet with the eccentricity closest to Earth.
What is Neptune?
The location of 24 hours of darkness in the summer.
What is between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole?
Name two pieces of evidence for Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect and the Foucault pendulum.
It is caused by the Earth's revolution.
The change in seasons.
The direction sunrise will occur on June 21.
What is northeast?
One of the focal point's of a planet's orbit is always this.
What is the sun?
The shortest day (name and date) in New York State.
What is Dec 21, winter solstice?
The degrees per hour the Earth rotates.
What is 15 degrees?
The location where the sun it it your zenith on June 21.
What is the tropic of cancer?
Location of sun directly overhead on December 21.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
The eccentricity of a perfect circle.
What is 0?
The effect that causes deflecting of fluids to the right in the northern hemisphere
What is the Coriolis effect?