Astronomy Ranking Task: The Seasons - University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Exercise #4
Astronomy Ranking Task: The Seasons
Description: In the figure below parallel beams of sunlight illuminate Earth. Notice that the Earth's rotation axis is slightly tilted. As the Earth spins, locations A through E spend part of the 24 hour day in sunlight, and part of the day in darkness (as indicated by the shaded region).
A. Ranking Instructions: Rank the time it takes (from longest to shortest) each location (A ? E) to complete one full rotation.
Ranking Order: Longest time 1 _____ 2 _____ 3 _____ 4 _____ 5_____ Shortest time
Or, the time it takes each location to make one full rotation is the same. ________ (indicate with check mark).
Carefully explain your reasoning for ranking this way: _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________
B. Ranking Instructions: Rank the time (from longest to shortest) that each location spends in daylight during each 24 hour period.
Ranking Order: Longest time 1 _____ 2 _____ 3 _____ 4 _____ 5_____ Shortest time.
Or, the time each location spends in daylight is the same. ________ (indicate with check mark).
Carefully explain your reasoning for ranking this way: _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________
C. Ranking Instructions: Imagine that you placed identical glasses of water at each location (A - E) and the water was warmed by the Sun during one full 24 hour rotation. Rank the temperature (from coolest to hottest) of the glasses of water at each location (A ? E) at the end of that time period.
Ranking Order: Coolest 1 _____ 2 _____ 3 _____ 4 _____ 5_____ Hottest
Or, the temperature of each glass of water is the same. ________ (indicate with check mark).
Carefully explain your reasoning for ranking this way: _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________
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