Seasons & The Lunar Cycle



Review1. The latitude of Oslo Norway is 60o N. What is the altitude of the Sun during the winter and summer solstices?2. What can you say about the position of the sun during the course of the year for observers within 23.5 degrees of the north/south pole?3. What can you say about the position of the sun during the course of the year for observers within 23.5 degrees of the equator?4. On what date can the sun be found directly overhead at the Tropic of Capricorn? Cancer?5. Describe the positions, speeds, and distances from the Sun for Earth at the solstices and equinox.6. In Reykjavik, Iceland, the sun reaches an altitude of 2o at the winter solstice. What is the latitude of Reykjavik?7. Guam is a territory of the United States located in the Western Pacific Ocean at a latitude of 13o N. What is the altitude and azimuth of the sun on the summer solstice? 8. Today, the moon set in the Western horizon around noon. What phase is the moon?9. One week ago the moon was full. Approximately what time was the moon due South at its highest point in its path across the sky?10. It is a third quarter moon and the sun is setting in the west. Where (azimuth) do you look to see the moon?11. The sun is setting and the moon is located in the southeast sky. What phase of the moon is it?12. The circumference of the earth is approximately 40,000 km. A globe I have has is 55 cm around at the equator. According to this scale, 1 cm on the globe is equal to how many kilometers on earth? 13. Communication satellites orbit the earth at a height of approximately 300 km above the surface. Using the scale of my globe, how many centimeters above the surface is the satellite orbiting? 14. It is 9:00 am on Wednesday in Providence. What day and time is it in the following locations?LocationLatitude LongitudeTimeDayPrague, Czech Republic50o 05’ N14o 25’ EKuala Lumpur, Malaysia3o 08’ N101o 42’ EAnchorage, Alaska61o 13’ N149o 54’ W ................
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