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Earth's Motion: Time and Tides Explained

The document discusses concepts related to Earth's motion including its rotation, revolution around the sun, axial tilt, and the resulting seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres. It also covers time zones, the phases of the moon, and the causes of ocean tides from gravitational pulls of the sun and moon. Key facts include that it takes Earth approximately 24 hours to complete one rotation on its axis and 365 days to orbit the sun once.

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Earth's Motion: Time and Tides Explained

The document discusses concepts related to Earth's motion including its rotation, revolution around the sun, axial tilt, and the resulting seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres. It also covers time zones, the phases of the moon, and the causes of ocean tides from gravitational pulls of the sun and moon. Key facts include that it takes Earth approximately 24 hours to complete one rotation on its axis and 365 days to orbit the sun once.

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Our Earth in Motion:

Understanding Time, Tides and Seasons

Our Earth in Motion:


Understanding Time, Tides and Seasons
During the Program
1. Exactly how long does it take for the Earth to spin once on its axis?
23 hours and 56 minute.

2. The axis is an imaginary line that passes through which two points on the Earth?
Northern and Southern spear

3. How long exactly does it take the Earth to revolve around the Sun once?

365 days

4. What do we call the time when the Earth rotates and the first rays of sunlight fall on a particular place?
summer

5. If the sun is high overhead here in the middle of the day, what would you expect to be the situation on the
other side of the Earth?
night

6. What part of Australia sees the sun first at the beginning of each day?

Eastern side of Australia

7. How many different times zones are there in the world?


26

8. How many different time zones are there in Australia?


5

9. Who came up with the idea of time zones and when was this?
ENGLAND

10. What invention made it necessary for different places to have the same time?
The train.

11. In which country of the world is Greenwich?


Our Earth in Motion:
Understanding Time, Tides and Seasons

12. What longitude would you expect to see given for Greenwich on a map?
1

13. What time would it be for astronauts out in space at this moment when they are constantly passing over
many different time zones?
Greenwich time

14. About how many degrees is the Earth’s axis tilted from the vertical?
25

15. Which hemisphere is pointing towards the Sun in late December?


Southern hemisphere

16. What season will this be in the northern hemisphere?


Winter

17. What two places on Earth can experience 24 hours of daylight in summer and 24 hours of darkness in
winter?

18. When is the winter solstice in Australia?


21 of June

19. What is the name of the line drawn to show the most southerly distance the sun can reach from the equator
in June?
Caper corn

20. In which months do the two equinoxes occur?


Autumn and spring

21. What two seasons do we have when it is an equinox?

22. What is the shape of the moon’s orbit around the Earth?
Our Earth in Motion:
Understanding Time, Tides and Seasons

23. How many days does it take the moon to complete one orbit?

24. What phase of the moon do we have when the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth to the sun?

25. How many days are there between a full moon and a new moon?

26. When we have had a new moon and so the moon appears to get bigger every day, do we say that the moon
is waxing or waning?

27. The force that pulls on the oceans to form the tides is called a pull.

28. How many high tides does each place have in one day?

29. The high tides that are experienced when both the Sun and Moon are on the same side as the earth are

called tides.

30. What do people living on the coast see when it is a neap tide?

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