5.8C Sun's Apparent Movement

5.8C Sun's Apparent Movement

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Sunrise

The Earth rotates from west to east & when viewed from above the movement is counterclockwise.

The sun rises in the East

Sunrise

What this means is that in the morning, the sun is toward the East.

Multiple Choice

Where does the sun rise?

• WEST

• NORTH

• EAST

• SOUTH

Middle of the Day

Around 12:00 pm, the Sun appears to makes its way toward the middle of the sky.

What reallly is moving is Earth, the sun i still.

Multiple Choice

Does the sun move or Earth?

• Sun

• Earth

Sunset

• The Earth rotates and when the Sun gets ready to set where we are on Earth it appears to set in the WEST

• Toward night the sun heads WEST

Multiple Choice

Where does the sun set?

• NORTH

• EAST

• SOUTH

• WEST

Multiple Choice

If it is almost night time, where is the sun?

• NORTH

• WEST

• SOUTH

• EAST

Multiple Choice

Where is the sun when school is about to begin?

• NORTH

• SOUTH

• EAST

• WEST

Multiple Choice

Which of these is true?

• The sun is getting ready to set in about 2 hours

• The sun rose 2 hours ago

• The time is 12:00 pm in the afternoon

• It is night time.

Multiple Choice

What is true?

• It is morning time

• The sun is rising

• The sun is getting ready to set

• The sun will reach the middle of the sky in about 3 hours

Multiple Choice

What time is it likely?

• It is 12:00 am

• It is 12:00 pm

• It is 7:30 am

• It is 6:00pm

Multiple Choice

What is true about this image

• The sun will set in 2 hours

• The sun will set in 30 minutes

• The sun rose 1 hour ago

Multiple Choice

What is true?

• The sun rose one hour ago

• The sun rose 3 hours ago

• The sun will set in 2 hours

• The sun will set in 8 hours

Shadow Shapes

Shadows can be different sizes and shapes

Multiple Choice

What do you think affects shadow lengths the most?

• Tilt of Earth

• Sun's position in the sky

• Earth's revolution

What causes changes?

Shadows change length throughout the day because the angle at which the sun shines on objects changes with the Earth's rotation

Multiple Choice

What causes changing shadows?

• Sun's orbit

• the moon

• Sun's position in the sky

A pattern

There is a pattern in lengths

Multiple Choice

What pattern do you see?

• Long to short

• Long to short to long

• long always

• short always

Where do the shadows appear?

Shadows appear in front of objects and the direction of the shadows depends on where the sun is in the sky.

Multiple Choice

When are shadows shortest?

• Early morning

• Near sunset

• Middle of the day

Multiple Choice

When the sun gets lower in the sky, shadows get______.

• longer

• gone

• shorter

• darker

Multiple Choice

Which shows the best example of a shadow at about noon?