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Celestial object Rotation
Motions in the sky
Celestial Coordinates
Earth's of Rotation
Sun's Path Annually
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This planet has a rate of rotation of 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds
What is Earth
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The brightest object that travels through the sky during the day
What is the Sun
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the imaginary boundary between Earth and the sky
What is the horizon
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The deflection of wind and water on Earth's surface as a result of Rotation
What is the coriolis effect
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the name for the latitude 23.5 degrees north
What is the tropic of cancer
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This planets rate of rotation is most similar to Earth
What is Mars
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The imaginary dome that surrounds the Earth on which all celestial objects are projected
What is celestial sphere
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The height of a star above the horizon
What is altitude
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A swinging device with a weight hanging from the ceiling that appears to change its direction of swinging around the room as time increases
What is Foucault pendulum
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The general direction of a shadow at sunset
What is east
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This planet has the longest rate of rotation
What is Venus
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This phenonmeon causes celestial object to APPEAR to move through the sky (15 d/hr)
What is Earth's rotation
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The compass direction of a star in the sky
What is azimuth
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The points on Earth on which the planet rotates around
What is axis
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The sun is directly over this latitude on March 21st
What is Equator or 0 degrees latitude
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This formula is Degree's of spinning on axis/Time
What is rate of rotation
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This is the rate of rotation for the Earth
What is 15 degrees/hour
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The sunrise occurs in this direction of the sky
What is East
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Regions of about 15° of longitude around the world where time is measured on a local scale
What are time zones
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When will the Sun be directly overhead (at zenith) for a person in Brooklyn or NYS
What is never
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This celestial object rotates at the center of our Solar System
What is the Sun
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This is the rate of rotation for Neptune
What is 22.5 degree's/hour
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The height directly overhead in your celestial sphere
What is zenith
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The name of the orbital plane around which the Earth and all other planets revolve around the Sun
What is the ecliptic
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The altitude of the sun at noon on June 21st for 23.5 degrees N latitude
What is the zenith of 90 degrees altitude