Prior Knowledge on Apparent motion

What do you think 'Apparent motion' means?

• When something feels like it is moving, but is not actually moving

• When something continues to move at a high speed

• When something continues to move at a low speed

• When something continues to move constantly

Which of these is an example of Apparent motion?

• Riding on your bicycle

• feeling that your train is moving, but its actually the other train moving

• pushing a trolley until it rolls

• stopping a car in front of the trafiic light.

Which of these moves around the other?

• The sun moves around the earth

• The earth moves around the moon

• The earth moves around the sun

• The moon moves around the sun

When we see the sun move in the sky from east to west, what is actually happening?

• The sun is really moving from east to west

• The earth is moving on its axis from west to east

• The earth is moving around the sun from north to south

• The sun is moving and also the earth too is moving

The movement of the earth around the sun causes ________

• the change in the earth's speed.

• the change in the sun's appearance

• the change in day and night

• the change in seasons in a year

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