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A sidereal day is shorter than a solar day. What is the reason for this difference?

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A sidereal day is shorter than a solar day. What is the reason for this difference?

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• Difference between a sidereal day and a solar day • What point in the sky each type of day uses as a reference • How Earth's orbit around the Sun affects the apparent position of the Sun from one day to the next

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• Ask yourself: What is Earth lined up with at the start and end of a sidereal day versus a solar day? • Imagine Earth makes exactly one rotation relative to the distant stars. Where has the Sun moved in the sky during that time because of Earth’s orbital motion? • Which option talks about the basic reference direction used to measure each kind of day, rather than long-term or irregular changes?

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• Identify that a sidereal day is measured relative to distant stars, and a solar day is measured relative to the Sun • Check which option refers to the fundamental reference point difference, not to slow, long-term motions like precession • Eliminate choices that describe phenomena occurring over many years or very irregularly, rather than explaining a consistent daily time difference

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A sidereal day is shorter than a solar day. What is the reason for this difference?

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