The slow, 25,800-year rotation of Earth's axis is called ______________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


precession

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A car slows down uniformly from a speed of 18.0 m/s to rest in 5.00 s. How far did it travel in that time?

What will be an ideal response?

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What is the giant impact hypothesis for the origin of the Moon?

A) The Moon formed from material blasted out of the Earth's mantle and crust by the impact of a Mars-size object. B) The Moon formed when two gigantic asteroids collided with one another. C) The Moon originally was about the same size as Earth, but a giant impact blasted most of it away so that it ended up much smaller than Earth. D) The Moon formed just like the Earth, from accretion in the solar nebula.

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The rings of Uranus and Neptune are found

A) by the Hubble Space Telescope. B) above their equators. C) in the ecliptic plane. D) outside the Roche limit. E) all of the above

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