What is eccentricity?

Shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun

Inclination of Earth's axis, related to it's plane of orbit

Earth's gradual wobble as it rotates on axis

The inclination of Earth's axis related to it's plane of orbit

The shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun

Earth's gradual wobble as it rotates on axis

The shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun

The inclination of Earth's axis related to it's plane of orbit

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1What is eccentricity?
1. AShape of Earth's orbit around the Sun
2. BInclination of Earth's axis, related to it's plane of orbit
3. CEarth's gradual wobble as it rotates on axis
2What is Obliquity?
1. AThe shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun
2. BThe inclination of Earth's axis related to it's plane of orbit
3. CEarth's gradual wobble as it rotates on axis
3What is Precession?
1. AThe shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun
2. BThe inclination of Earth's axis related to it's plane of orbit
3. CEarth's gradual wobble as it rotates on axis
4Cyclical changes in circumnavigation are the primary cause in the episodic nature of what?
1. AGlacial/ interglacial periods
2. BPressure belts
5What do the Milankovitch cycles impact on?
1. ASeasonality
2. BLocation of insolation
3. CContrasts between seasons
4. DAll of the above