CSEE (Form 4) The Solar System — practice questions

1. Local time depends on when the Sun crosses a place's meridian. 2. The Earth spinning on its axis is what carries each meridian past the Sun in turn, so rotation is the cause. 3. The difference in longitude is how the size of the gap is calculated, but it is not the cause of it. 4. Revolution around the Sun produces seasons, aphelion and perihelion, eclipses, and varying day lengths — not the hour-to-hour time difference. 5. Latitude plays no part in local time at all, so mistaking the 40° and 10° for latitudes was a recorded error. _Source: NECTA CSEE 2021 Geography 013, Question 1: Multiple Choice Items, item (vi)_

1. Rotation is the daily spin on the Earth's axis; revolution is the yearly orbit around the Sun. 2. The seasons arise because the tilted Earth presents different hemispheres to the Sun through that orbit. 3. Revolution also produces aphelion and perihelion, eclipses, and varying lengths of day and night through the year. 4. Day and night alternating, and the Sun appearing to rise in the east, both follow from rotation. 5. Local time differing with longitude is likewise a rotation effect, since the spin carries each meridian past the Sun. _Source: NECTA CSEE 2021 Geography 013, Question 1: Multiple Choice Items, item (vi)_