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What movement causes day and night?
Rotation
What movement causes the four seasons?
Revolution
What movement takes 24 hours?
Rotation
What movement takes 365 days and 6 hours?
Revolution
What are the two ways we can represent our planet?
Globes and Planispheres
What is a globe?
it is a three-dimensional representation of the Earth´s surface. It shows the exact shape of continents and oceans.
What is a planisphere?
A planisphere is a two-dimensional representation of the Earth´s surface. It shows the approximate position and size of all the continents and oceans.
What are parallels and meridians?
They are imaginary lines used to find a certain point.
True or false: planispheres can be physical and political.
True
