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PLANET EARTH

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  • What do meridians measure?
    Longitude.
  • Who was the first person to go into space?
    Yuri Gagarin.
  • What's the name of the vertical lines from the North Pole to the South Pole?
    Meridians.
  • What's the name of the horizontal lines around the Earth?
    Parallels.
  • How are meridians and parallels measured?
    In degrees.
  • What is the Earth's axis?
    It's an imaginary line that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole.
  • Who was the first Spanish astronaut that went into space?
    Pedro Duque.
  • What is the name of the telescope that was launched into space?
    Hubble.
  • What is the International Space Station?
    It's a place in space where astronauts do research and experiments.
  • What is rotation?
    It's the movement of the Earth on its own axis.
  • What do parallels measure?
    Latitude
  • How long does it take the Earth to complete an orbit around the Sun?
    It takes 365 days and 6 hours.
  • How long does the Earth take to make a complete rotation?
    24 hours (a day).
  • What does the rotation movement cause?
    Day and night.
  • Parallels are measured in degrees...
    North or South.
  • Meridians are measured in degrees...
    East or West.
  • What does the revolution movement cause?
    The seasons.
  • When did the first person set foot on the Moon?
    In 1969.
  • What are the four seasons?
    Winter, spring, summer, autumn/fall.
  • The distance from the Equator is called...
    Latitude
  • The distance from the Greenwich Meridian is called...
    Longitude.
  • What is revolution?
    It's the movement of the Earth around the Sun.
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