An axis is an _______ line that runs from the North _______ to the South pole.
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4.
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5.
Uranus spins on its axis at about 98o, what does this mean?
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9.
When the Egyptians built the pyramids the North star was not our current polaris but it used to be _______.
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10.
Question 11
11.
How did Hipparchus find that our planets axis is changing?
Question 12
12.
When you are riding in your car and the car _______ you feel an _______.
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13.
There is an acceleration as the world _______.
Question 14
14.
Acceleration works against the force of gravity
Other Answer Choices:
weigh more
weigh less
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16.
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17.
Question 19
19.
The gravitational force of the sun on the Earth is _______. One side of the Earth gets tugged just a little bit _______. This causes the Earth's axis to _______.
Word bank:
less
more
spin
circle
unbalanced
balanced
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20.
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21.
Question 22
22.
One way to measure the length of a year is by looking at the seasons, this is called the __________ way. Another way to measure the length of the year is by measuring the __________ of stars, this is called the __________ way.
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23.
The tropical year depends on the Earth's _______.
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24.
The winter __________ is the __________ day of the year and it is when the __________ is titled away from the sun.
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25.
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26.
What is the difference?
Why is a sidereal year different than a tropical year?
Question 28
28.
Other Answer Choices:
365.25636
365.24219
365
355-378
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30.
Question 32
32.
What would be the consequence of sticking with a sidereal calendar based on star positions rather than the tropical calendar which was based on the seasons?
Question 33
33.
What are the problems with sticking with a tropical method of dating the length of a year?
A wheel on a car spins around an...
axel
pole
thingy
metal rod
The Earth is slightly tilted and spins on it's axis at about
23.5 degrees
27 degrees
23 degrees
22 degrees
45 degrees
Why did our North Star, the star our Earth's axis points to, change?
because our Earth's axis changed
because the genetic makeup of the Earth changed
because the southern axis was used in place of it
because they wanted to
The Earth is 26 miles..
wider at the equator
shorter at the pole
cooler
hotter
elliptical at the center
Acceleration works against gravity greater at the equator than the poles... what does it do to the Earth..
It causes the Earth to bulge
It causes the Earth to become more round
It causes the Earth to shrink
It causes the Earth to melt
It causes the Earth to spin faster.
The Earth's axis spins because of the sun and completes one revolution every
30,000 years
million years
3.4 billion years
26,000 years
How long is a tropical year?
1 summer
4 springs
2 winter solstice's
4 summer periods
The Gregorian calender was not adopted in Russia until
