NAME _______________________ DATE _______________________ Apparent Motion of the Sun Lab Gather the following: a clear plastic hemisphere overhead marker clear protractor calculator 1. The Sun appears to move __________ ° / hour because the Earth moves _________ ° / hour.
4a The Sun will appear to travel ____________ ° across the sky in 12 hours.
The Sun will appear to travel ____________ ° across the sky in 2 hours.
The Sun will appear to travel ____________ ° across the sky in 6 hours.
6. During the summer solstice, the Sun rises 23.5 ° north of east (because the Sun is on the Tropic of Cancer).
Connect the three marker points using the protractor and label the line with the date of the summer solstice.
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