Time

1) What is the current calendar most of the world uses / accepts? Explain who made it and why this is accepted.

2) What is a leap year?is a year containing one extra day or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year

3) List three other types of calendars used and how they set up their calendar (ex. Lunar).

4) What is BC?Before Christ

5) What is BCE?before the Common Era

6) What is AD?Anno Domini

7) What is CE?Common Era

8) What is MYA?million years ago

9) According to the timeline site how many periods of when are there and list time.

10) What is an eon, epoch, era, and age?sun clocks, water clocks, quatz clocks

11) List three ancient calendars-Egyptian calendar,gregorian calender, western calender

12) List two ancient clocks and how they worked- water clock clepsydra

13) What was a revolution of timekeeping?moon clock

14) What allows for standard more accurate clocks? Pendulum clock

15) What are time zones?every place have there own time zones

16) What is the prime meridian?poles in the middle

17) If it’s 10:00 AM in Regina, what time is it in Toronto? London? Moscow? Tokyo? Hawaii?toronto 12pm, london 4:39pm, moscow 7:39pm, tokyo 12:40am, hawaii 5:41am

18) What is Daylight Saving Time? Do we use this in Saskatchewan? No we do not use it in Saskatchewan

19) Is there a year zero?No there is not

20) Are we starting a new decade in 2010 or 2011? We are starting a new decade in 2011

21) What is linear time?Linear time is a concept where by time is seen sequentially,

22) What is cyclical time?Moving in cycles