Which statement about the moon is true? the moon approaches earth at a rate of 3.83 centimeters per year. the moon appears bigger than the sun viewed from earth. none of these statements are true. the moon rotates on its own axis. • the moon's orbital period is longer than its phase period because the moon must catch up to the sun due to earth's rotation on its own axis.

Option (1)

Explanation:

The moon is the natural satellite of earth. It revolves round the earth once every 27.3 days. The sun is located at a distance of nearly 93 million miles away from the earth. Whereas the moon is at 239000 miles away from the earth. But, both the moon and the sun roughly appears to be of the same size when viewed from the sun. The orbit of the moon around the earth is getting larger, that is enhancing at a rate of approximately 3.83 centimeters every year. The reason behind the increase in the moon's orbit is because of the tides on the Earth. This tidal generates a force, known as the tidal force, that acts as a strong gravitational pull. The earth's side that faces the Moon is the closest. The earth always faces the same side of the moon.

Hence, the correct answer is option (1).

since there isn't any suggested answers i will give you the reason and hopefully you can figure it

south africa, or rather all of africa, has not been in the location in which it is nowadays throughout the geological past. after the super-continent pangaea started to break apart, gondwanaland, in which was africa, moved further south, and parts of it came to be very close to the south pole. because the climate in this part of the world is very cold due to the very dispersed sun rays in there, what is now south africa, started to freeze, and the conditions were right for the formation of glaciers. the glaciers existed up until the period when gondwanaland started to break apart and what is now africa started to move towards north, sp it warmed up and the glaciers melted.