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☻Time Keeps On Slippin’☻ 1) What is the current calendar most of the world uses / accepts? Explain who made it and why this is accepted. -The current calendar that most of the world uses and accepts is the Western Calendar or the Christian Calendar this calendar was introduced by [|Pope Gregory XIII] and this Calendar is accepted as a Civil calendar 2) What is a leap year? -Leap year is every year that is exactly divisible by 4 is leap year, execpt for the years that is exactly divisible by 100. 3) List three other types of calendars used and how they set up their calendar (ex. Lunar). -The three other types of calendars are Julian calendar,Mayan calendar,and Jewish calendar 4) What is BC? -BC means Before Christ 5) What is BCE? -BCE means Before Common Era 6) What is AD? -AD means Anno Domini(in the year of the LORD) 7) What is CE? -CE means Common Era 8) What is MYA? -MYA means Millions of Years Ago 9) According to the timeline site how many periods of when are there and list time. -There are 21 periods in timeline.. The 21 periods in timeline are Big Bang:Formation of the Universe, Formation of the Earth, Cambrian:Explosion of life on earth, Permian:Largest Mass Extinction, Mesozoic:Age of the Dinosaurs, Stone Age:Human Era, Ice Age:Extinction of Large Mamals, Neotlithic:First Permanent Settlements, Bronze Age: First Pharaos, Iron Age:Start of the Torjan War, Hellenistic Period, Roman Period, Byzantine Period, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, 20th Century, 21st Century, and Future 10) What is an eon, epoch, era, and age? -Eon is the longest division of geological time, Epoch means is the particular in time chosen as the origin of a particular era, Era means is the period marked by distinctive character from a fixed point or event, Age means how long these things existed. 11) List three ancient calendars -Egyptian Calendar,Mayan Calendar, Babylonian Calendar 12) List two ancient clocks and how they worked. -Sun clock it is a clock where people can be able to partition the day to morning and afternoon.It is also showed the year's longest and shortest days when the shadow at the noon was the shortest or longest of the year. Water clock is the earliest timekeepers that didn't depend on the celestial bodies.Some water clocks rang bells and gongs. 13) What was a revolution of timekeeping? -Timekeeping is a relatively recent human desire--probably 5000- 6000 years old. Clock is a repetative actions to mark off equal incriments of time. 14) What allows for standard more accurate clocks? - An atoms that constitute a potential "pendulum" with a reproducible rate that can form the basis for more accurate clocks. 15) What are time zones? -Timezones are a comprimise,relaxing the complex geographic dependence while allowing local time to approximate the mean of solar time. 16) What is the prime meridian? -Prime Meridian is the longitude line that defined as 0. 17) If it’s 10:00 AM in Regina, what time is it in Toronto? London? Moscow? Tokyo? Hawaii? -Time in Toronto is 11:00 am (same date), London is 3:20 pm(same date), Moscow is 6:20 pm(same date), Tokyo 12:20 am (one day ahead),Hawaii is 5:46 am (same date)Hawaii is 5:22 am (same date) 18. What is Daylight Saving Time? Do we use this in Saskatchewan -Daylight Saving Time is we can change our clocks one hour ahead or twice behind two each year. 19) Is there a year zero? -There is no year zero because the purists insists the 21st Century actually began in January 1, 2001. 20) Are we starting a new decade in 2010 or 2011? -We are starting our new decide in 2011 because decade means ten years so, every ten years we are starting our new decade. 21) What is linear time? -Linear time is a time that moves along in the straight line, with one event happening after another. 22) What is cyclical time? -Cyclical time is a time that did not move forward for them-- instead, it moves in endless loops,reminiscent of the cycles of the season. Bonus Question: In What Steve Miller song does time ‘keep slippin’ into the future’? -Fly Like An Eagle