Sentences with phrase «rotation between nights and days»

Hours: Continental Shifts - 12 hours - Rotation between nights and days.

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This 30 - slide presentation revises the following learning objectives: 1) To explain how the Earth spinning explains day and night 2) To know what a leap year is and explain why we need them 3) To explain why the average temperature changes as we go through the year 4) To explain why the length of the day changes as we go through the year 5) To describe difference between stars and planets 6) To describe the phases of the Moon 7) To explain that the apparent movement of the stars is caused by the rotation of the Earth 8) To explain total and partial solar and lunar eclipses 9) To explain the effect the sun and the moon have on tides on earth 10) To describe spring tides and neap tides

The sense of scale is amplified in VR, especially the fantastic skyboxes that cycle between day and night, massive planets in rotation around you, and the ferocity of the elements.

I can't find a single person who will affirm that all the effects within a 24 hour day, including massive temperature fluctuations between day and night, is due to one rotation of the planet and that these days never, ever fall out of step with rotations.The ideology which contemporaries have inherited from the late 17th century is that the Earth's rotation falls out of step with 24 hour days to the tune of 4 extra rotations in 4 years by virtue of an utterly stupid idea that the planet's daily and orbital motions can be modeled directly from a rotating celestial sphere of Ra / Dec observing.