Ocean and Milankovitch Quiz

What is the effect of eccentricity?

• The amount of solar energy the earth gets

• How fast our earth rotates

• Global warming

• High winds

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What causes precession?

• Gravitational influences of the sun and moon

• The amount of water on earth

• The amount of CO2 produced on earth

• Climate cells

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

What star is earth facing due to precession?

• Polaris

• Vega

What is precession?

• When the earth slightly wobbles on it's axis

• When the earth is slightly tilting

• The elliptical rotation of the earth

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NGSS.MS-PS2-5

Less tilt of the earth means

• Less severe seasons

• More severe seasons

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

More tilt of the earth means

• More severe seasons

• Less severe seasons

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

How many years does it take for the obliquity/axial tilt cycle to be complete?

• 40,000

• 30,000

• 20,000

• 10,000

What is obliquity/axial tilt?

• The variation of the tilt of the earth's axis away from the orbital

• How close the earth is to the sun

• The tilt of humans on one side of the earth

• The shift of weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is aphelion

• When the earth is farthest from the sun

• When the earth is closest to the sun

What is perihelion

• When the earth is closest to the sun

• When the earth is farthest from the sun