Illyria: Baby Name of the Day. By appellationmountain 6 Comments. Sheâs a Shakespearean place name with a romantic sound and a sci fi twist. Thanks to Felecia for suggesting Illyria as our Baby Name of the Day. Illyria is the setting for Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night, and the Bard borrowed it from the map.In real life, it was once the name for the western part of the Balkan peninsula, a part of the world with a reputation as being contentious and war-torn, but also incredibly beautiful. The Romans are responsible for the name.llyria: Baby Name of the Day. By appellationmountain 6 Comments. Sheâs a Shakespearean place name with a romantic sound and a sci fi twist. Thanks to Felecia for suggesting Illyria as our Baby Name of the Day. Illyria is the setting for Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night, and the Bard borrowed it from the map.
The earth rotates once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09053 seconds, called the sidereal period, and its circumference is roughly 40,075 kilometers. Thus, the surface of the earth at the equator moves at a speed of 460 meters per second--or roughly 1,000 miles per hour. As schoolchildren, we learn that the earth is moving about our sun in a very nearly circular orbit. It covers this route at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour.
Discussion Questions These questions can be used for group discussion or for written answers in the studentsâ learning logs. 1. How many days does it take for the Earth to make one revolution of the Sun? Answer: The Earth takes 365 Â¼ days to revolve around the Sun. This is known as one Earth year. Each planet takes a different amount of time to rotate around the Sun. 2. How many times will the Earth rotate as it goes around the sun once? Answer: The Earth rotates 365 Â¼ times as it revolves around the Sun. This is also the number of days in one Earth year. 3. If it takes 365 Â¼ days for the Earth to go around the Sun, but each year only has 365 days, what happens to the Â¼ day? Answer: Leap Year occurs every 4 years. This is because each 4 times around the Sun, there is a total of one extra day. (Â¼ + Â¼ + Â¼ + Â¼ = 1) This day is added on February 29th every fourth year, making that year 366 days long. 4. How many times does the Moon orbit the Earth in one Earth year? Answer: About 12, or 12.3 times. This is why we have about twelve full moons each year. 5. Does the Moon give off its own light? How do you know? Answer: No, in this model, the Moon is represented by a Styrofoam ball and does not give off light. 6.