2b. Daily Article Answers - Earth's Shortest Day - UKS2 (9-11).pdf

1、Answers1.What do scientists use to measure the speed of the Earths rotation?an atomic clock2.Scientists understand why the Earth is speeding up.Find a piece of evidence that proves this statement wrong.Accept any answer which refers to the sentence:Scientists do not all agree on why the Earth is spe

2、eding up.3.Tick each of these statements to show whether they are true or false.TrueFalseA day on Earth is always exactly 24 hours.A year on Earth is roughly 24 hours.Half the Earth is always in sunlight.The Earth has always been speeding up.4.Why were scientists shocked that the Earth was speeding

3、up?Accept any answer which refers to the fact the Earth had previously been slowing down.5.In the phrase,the shortest day ever recorded,what is meant by the word recorded?Accept any reasonable answer which suggests that it means people have been storing the data,e.g.I think it means people have been making a note of something.6.Summarise the key information in the article in 15 words or fewer.Accept any reasonable answer which summarises the information in 15 words or fewer,e.g.The Earth recorded its shortest-ever day on 29th June 2022.Earths Shortest Day on Recordvisit