Transcript 4.2 Earth`s Rotation

4.2 EARTH’S ROTATION
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DAHS
Mr. Sweet
OBJECTIVES
Give evidence of Earth’s rotation.
 Relate Earth’s rotation to the day-night cycle and
the time zones.
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Evidence for Rotation
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Jean Foucault in 1851
Pendulum
 Direction of swing
does not change
 Shifts 11o per hour in
clockwise motion
 Earth is turning
beneath the pendulum
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EVIDENCE FOR ROTATION
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Coriolis Effect
Wind and water is
deflected due to spin of
earth
 Right in North and
Left in South
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EVIDENCE FOR ROTATION
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Change from day to
night.
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Axis
Imaginary line from
pole to pole
 Orbital Plane
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Earth’s path around
the sun
Axis tilted to 23.5o
 Pointed at Polaris
Star
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Called Parallelism
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Rate of Rotation
360o every 23 hours,
56 minutes, 4.1
seconds
 15o every hour
 Distance traveled at
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Equator is 40,074 km
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1690 km per hour
Poles is 0 km
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Measuring Time
Earth rotates
clockwise
 Half of earth is light
and half dark
 24 hour day
 Solar noon is when
sun is directly
overhead
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Moves westward 15o
every day or 1o every 4
minutes
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STANDARD TIME ZONES
24 time zones
 Each 15o of longitude wide
 Each time zone centered on a line of longitude
called a time meridian
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All area in the time zone keep the same time
 Clock time is the average solar time at the zone’s
time meridian
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Rarely a straight line on land
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U.S. TIME ZONES
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WORLD TIME ZONES
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PRIME MERIDIAN
Arbitrary line in
Greenwich, England
 East of the PM clocks
are set earlier
 West of the PM clocks
are set later
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INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE
The longitude at
which the date
changes
 Moving west the date
is one day later
 Moving east the date
is one earlier
 Western half is one
day ahead of the
eastern half
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USA is one day behind
Eastern Asia
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SECTION REVIEW 4.2
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 Complete questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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