What is it called when the length of day and night is the same?
Equinox
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What is it called when one hemisphere has the LONGEST number of hours of daylight and the opposite hemisphere has the SHORTEST number of daylight hours?
Solstice
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How many days is the lunar (moon) phase cycle?
29.5 days
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In what direction does the Earth revolve around the sun?
West to East / anti-clockwise
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The Earth rotates on its _____.
axis
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What is geocentric theory?
the Earth is at the center of the solar system and the planets and Sun go around it
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How many time zones are there?
24
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Who is the most famous for pushing heliocentric theory and got in trouble with the Catholic Church?
Galileo Galilei
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How many days is the moon's revolution around Earth?
27 days
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How many days does it take for the earth to complete one revolution around the sun?
365.25 days
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The hottest temperatures on Earth are found around the _______.
equator
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What is the imaginary line running through the center of the Earth?
axis
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What season is it in South Africa when it is summer in Australia?