What is the difference between rotation and revolution related to movement?
Rotation is spinning and revolution is orbiting around the sun.
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Why do we have time zones
What is Because the sun rises at different times of the day around the globe
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What does a planet rotate on
What is it's axis
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What do planets revolve around
What is their sun?
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What must happen for day and night to occur?
Rotation
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This observation, of objects deflecting due to the rotation of the earth.
What is the Coriolis effect
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In what direction does the Earth rotate?
What is west to east
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What is an axis?
What is the imaginary line that our planet spins on
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What causes revolution
What is the balance between gravity and inertia
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What is the movement of revolution?
What is counterclockwise
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One piece of evidence for Revolution is when you look up at the night's sky, and see the changing positions of the?
Sun
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If it is 3:00 pm in New York, what time is it in Texas?
What is 4:00 pm?
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What does the spinning of earth on its axis cause?
What is day and night
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When the North pole is pointed towards the sun, what season is it in the Northern Hemisphere?
What is Summer
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What is the movement of rotation?
What is west to east
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This piece of evidence for revolution is that as the year goes by, we experience different temperature and weather associated with
What are seasons
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Why do we have different time zones?
The rotation of the earth
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How long does it take the earth to make one complete rotation?
What is 24 hours
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When the north pole is pointed toward the sun, what season is it?
What is summer
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You must have both of these in order for seasons to occur?
What is revolution AND tilt
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This piece of evidence came in the mid twentieth century, as technology advanced to a point where we could leave the earth and we now use it to take pictures and record things in space
What is a Satellite
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What star does not change in the night's sky, as the earth rotates, because it is directly above the North Pole
What is the North Star
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If the earth rotated east to west, would we still have day and night?
Yes
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During revolution, it is summer and winter when the earth is tilted toward or away from the sun. When is it spring or fall?
When the earth is parallel to the sun
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What happens every 4 years because the earth takes 365.25 days to revolve?