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Thursday, October 26, 2006  

Aim: How can we describe the relationship between the Earth and Sun throughout the year?
Vocabulary
Equinox
Solstice

How does the strength of the Sun’s rays change?
Direct and indirect

What affect does latitude have on strength?

What would happen if the Earth stopped rotating?

How do photosynthesis and chemosynthesis differ?

What is happening to the sunrise and sunset at 90 degrees north and south?

Whatinstruments do we us to observe the sky?

Extra credit
Motivated and high speed only
Why might creatures here survive the stop of rotation if they were on the dark side of Earth?


1. Black Smokers Black Smokers Black Smokers explains the phenomena of deep-sea hydrothermal vents that occur under oceans within mid-ocean ridge volcanoes. The site ...

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www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/expeditions/blacksmokers/black_smokers.html

posted by James | 11:21 AM
 

Aim How can we observe the change of the relationship between the Earth and Sun throughout the year?
Vocabulary
Solstice
Equinox
Rotation
Revolution
Orbit

Strength of the Sun's rays
Direct
Indirect

Length of day
Sunrise
Sunset

What is happening at 90 degrees north and 90 degrees south?


What would happen if the Earth stopped rotating?

Photosynthesis
Chemosynthesis

oceanic volcanoes
mid-oceanic rift life

Black Smokers Black Smokers Black Smokers explains the phenomena of deep-sea hydrothermal vents that occur under oceans within mid-ocean ridge volcanoes. The site ...

www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/expeditions/blacksmokers/black_smokers.html

posted by James | 11:00 AM
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