Questions

1. What is causing this change in location of the sunset?
2. Did the sunset move in the same direction between each of your observations?
3. Would you expect the sunset to move in the same direction all year? Why or why not?
4. Was the rate of movement the same between each of your observations? What is the rate of movement of the sunset over the course of the quarter (between your first and last observation)?
5. Would you expect the rate of change to be the same all year? Why or why not?
6. How do you expect the location of sunrise to have changed during this same time interval? What does this mean about the path that the sun is taking across the sky?