Question

A. Answer the following questions in brief :
1. Mention the two primary motions of the earth.
2. At what angle the axis of the earth is tilted from a perpendicular to the orbital plane ?
3. What is rotation ? Mention any two effects of it.
4. What coriolis effect?
5. What is circle of illumination ?
5. What is the basic cause of the cycle of seasons on earth?
6. Why days are longer and nights are shorter in Southern Hemisphere during the month of December?
7. "In the month of March the period of day light and darkness are nearly 12 hours each all over the world."
Give reason.
8. Why are the seasons reversed between the Southem and the Southern Hemisphere?
9. What is the effect of the inclination of the earth's axis ?
10. Which movement of the earth causes day and night?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1)rotation and revolution

2)23.5°

3)a process in which earth take round of it's own. it's effects are day and night.

4)coriolis effect makes things travelling long distance around earth appear to move at a curve at opposed to a straight line.

5)it is an imaginary line which dives day and night on earth.

5) revolution

6)it is because earth revolves around sun and tilted on axis of 23.5°, during winter sun's Ray's hit the earth on a shallow angle

8)sorry, don't know

9)gives us seasons

10)rotation

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