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The term Sikh is derived from sishya, which means disciple. It refers to a community numbering more than 19 million in India according to the 2001 Census, whose religion and way of life flow from the teachings of Nanak and nine successor Gurus (see Glossary). The Punjab is the homeland of the Sikhs, because the religio...
I could write the entire genome of a flu virus in around 100 tweets. It is just 14,000 letters long; for comparison, our genome has over 3 billion letters. This tiny collection of genetic material is enough to kill millions of people. Even though it has been sequenced time and time again, there is still a lot we don’t ...
African Methodist Episcopal Church Founded in 1816 as the first independent black-run Protestant church in the United States. Published Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, which told slaves to take up arms against their masters. A free black man who was responsible for planning a conspiracy to sieze local armo...
|Part of a series on the| |History of Laos| |Rival Kingdoms Period| |Luang Phrabang Kingdom||1707–1949| |Principality of Phuan||1707–1949| |French rule and administration||1893–1953| |N. Vietnamese invasion||1958–1959| The Lao Issara (“Free Laos”) was an anti-French, non-communist nationalist movement formed in 1945 by...
My third grade students explored different addition and subtraction algorithms this week. It’s been a challenge. In the past, students used number lines to add or subtract by the highest place value first and then slowly move towards the lowest. Moving towards a standard algorithm has been a process this week. Students...
Nowhere in Africa did the European presence grow more rapidly than in the south. During the eighteenth century, Dutch settlers from the Cape Colony began to migrate eastward into territory inhabited by local Khoisanand Bantu-speaking peoples entering the area from the north. Internecine warfare among the Bantus had lar...
When two different air masses meet, a front is formed. The boundary between these masses is called a stationary front. The air between the two masses never really combines. The stationary front may only last for a few days. One of the air masses, usually the colder and drier mass, pushes to the south, while a warmer an...
What is Prevention? Cancer prevention is action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. In 2014, about 1.6 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in the United States. In addition to the physical problems and emotional distress caused by cancer, the high costs of care are also a burden to patients, their fam...
by Joyce Miller The first step in characterizing the seafloor is to make a map of the bathymetry (seafloor depths) and seafloor characteristics, such as hardness and roughness. For this project we are using a multibeam sonar – an instrument that sends multiple “beams” of sound to the ocean floor and precisely measures ...
Since managers must determine the most efficient mix of labor and capital and the most efficient production process, they must study the costs of production. Here you will find that costs are different at different production levels. But why? Why does the cost to produce each item vary as output changes? To answer the ...
What Do Lunar Phases Look Like From the Other Side of the Moon? We’ve all seen the Moon go through its phases over the course of a month’s time (give or take a day or two) as it travels in its orbit around the Earth, and you may have even seen the cool animation from the NASA Goddard Visualization Studio showing an ent...
A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. The discovery could lead to a new way of producing electricity, the researchers say. The phenomenon, described as thermopower waves, "opens up a...
Tuff rock forms from of volcanic activity as the result violent eruptions. Volcanic ash, frothy magma, dust and fine rock particles from the eruption settle and build up on the land surface. The ejected particles form a rock with a soft, porous texture. The particles may eject from the main volcanic vent or may escape ...
At the state level, the Virginia legislature is called the General Assembly. It is the oldest elected representative body in the United States in continuous operation. The General Assembly started in 1619 when the colony was a private corporation run by the Virginia Company and Jamestown was the colonial capital. The G...
African peoples were captured & transported to the Western Hemisphere to work. Most European colonial economies in the Americas from the 16th - 19th century were dependent on enslaved African labor for their survival. The rationale of European colonial officials was that the abundant land they had "discovered" in the A...
Momentum. Momentum. Measure of Mass in Motion All Objects Have Mass If an Object is Moving, then it is a Mass in Motion 2 Variables How Much Stuff (Mass) is Moving How Fast (Velocity) the Stuff is Moving. Think of a ball bouncing off a wall. It leaves the wall at the same speed as before. Let’s call going from right to...
Math Practice: Dividing For this dividing worksheet, students divide one and two digit numbers by a one digit divisor. Students complete 12 division problems. 3 Views 7 Downloads Saxon Math Intermediate 5 - Student Edition Expand your resource library with this collection of Saxon math materials. Covering a wide range ...
In 1863, during the early years of independent and united Italy, Friulian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli coined the term “Tre Venezie,” today more commonly known as “Triveneto,” to describe the three Northeastern provinces of Italy comprising the modern borders of Alto Adige, Veneto, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The fir...
In 1900, Max Planck introduced the quantum concept. When an object radiates light, it releases a unit of radiation energy called a photon. In 1913 Niels Bohr suggested that electrons travel in circular orbits around the nucleus. The electron possesses a specific energy and it is said to occupy an energy level. If an el...
Suppose that a terrorist group manages to get hold of nuclear material, make a bomb and set it off in a city centre somewhere. Will the fragments that are left leave clues to who did it, or where the fissile material came from? Tests on residues from the world’s first nuclear explosion suggest they might. If someone la...
Vestigiality describes those similar characters of organisms that have seemingly lost all or most of their original function in a species through evolution. A structure or organ or even a function is vestigial if it has diminished in size or usefulness in the course of evolution . Vestigial structures are markers of ev...
What is inflation? Inflation can be defined as a sustained and continuous increase in general price level. This brings about a fall in the value of money. For it to be said that an economy is in an inflationary period, two things must happen. - General level of prices must be on the increase. Inflation is not measured ...
This is an image of Comet Kohoutek. Click on image for full size Not long ago, many people thought that comets were a sign that something bad was about to happen to them. People didn't understand how objects in the sky moved, so the sight of a comet must have been very disturbing. There are many historical records and ...
In 70 CE, after the fall of Jerusalem, many thousands of Jews were taken to Rome as slaves and others were exiled from Judaea. Rome took over the collection of the annual Jewish head tax, which had been a half shekel (equivalent to two Roman denarii). The Romans collected this tax with much zeal ... so much so that it ...
Most of us know a little about the history and extinction of dinosaurs, but not as many people know that dinosaur fossils are still found all over the world. The survival of dinosaur bones lets us know that in order to have survived the 65,000,000 to 230,000,000 year span of time, they would have to be petrified. Oxyge...
Because of the cost of fresh fruits and vegetables, more and more people are unable to afford to feed their children a healthy diet. Low-income minority children have a greater risk of becoming overweight or obese. They eat fewer fruits and vegetables and engage in less physical activity than higher income children. He...
Finding Area: Furnishing A Room Students will be able to find the area of rectangles and squares. Introduction (5 minutes) - Tell students that today they are going to be interior decorators. - Explain to students that they will work with a partner to furnish a room. - Students will create polygons to furnish a room an...
This Day In Literary History On March 30th, 1820, the famous English children's book writer Anna Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. She was born into a devoutly religious Quaker family. She had one sibling, a younger brother named Philip. As a young girl, Anna Sewell was mostly educated at home by her...
The Black people sold on the slave markets in the South during the 1600’s were the Black people who lived right here in this Hemisphere before any transatlantic slave trade existed. They were shipped to Central and South America. Native Americans or Indians were classified as Negroes and Blacks in the slave books of Se...
The asteroid impact that burst over Chelyabinsk, Russia, on the morning of February 15 has provided a huge collection of new data that scientists have been analysing since. This week, three papers, two in Nature and one in Science, describe new aspects of the meteorite’s airburst, building the most-detailed forensic pi...
Optimal foraging is strictly behavioral ecology. In this kind of analysis we look at the performance of a behavior. The assumption of the theory of optimal foraging is that organisms will be energy maximizers or time minimizers. Energy maximizers try to get the most energy out of an environment and time minimizers try ...
What it is: A bank or other institution uses the key rate to determine the interest rate on debt. In the United States, there are two key rates: the discount rate and rate. How it works (Example): To understand key rates, it is important to understand that banks derive deposits in .from making . When lending generates ...
Salmonella is the second most common cause of bacterial foodborne illness in New Zealand. Find out about how it is spread and its effects on humans. There are many different kinds of Salmonella with different sources and severity of illness. Salmonellosis is caused by Salmonella. It is the second most common bacterial ...
Seismotectonics of the Himalaya and Vicinity Seismicity in the Himalaya dominantly results from the continental collision of the India and Eurasia plates, which are converging at a relative rate of 40-50 mm/yr. Northward underthrusting of India beneath Eurasia generates numerous earthquakes and consequently makes this ...
The English language has six vowels: a, e, i, o, u and, in some instances, y. However, the English language has many more vowel sounds. These are generally divided into two categories: short vowel sounds and long vowel sounds. Although there are many exceptions, there are a few general rules that apply to short and lon...
Plate tectonics is the widely accepted theory that the Earth's crust is divided into several sections that float around on the mantle - the mostly solid layer between the core and the crust. But how they move around has been a subject of much debate among scientists since the theory was first accepted in the 1950s. The...
Sprinting is running over a short distance in a limited period of time. It is used in many sports that incorporate running, typically as a way of quickly reaching a target or goal, or avoiding or catching an opponent. Human physiology dictates that a runner's near-top speed cannot be maintained for more than 30-35 seco...
Composed in 1776 and formally ratified in 1781, the Articles of Confederation gave the fledgling United States the internal structure and cohesion it needed to form a government and fight its way out from under British rule. The Articles were redrafted multiple times, but proved potent as an ordering force even before ...
In Python, we know that we can add two integers together: >> 2 + 2 4 And of course, we can add two strings together: >> 'a' + 'b' 'ab' We can even add two lists together: >> [1,2,3] + [4,5,6] [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] But what happens when you add two booleans together? >> True + True 2 Huh? What’s going on here? This would s...
Have you ever asked your student “What do you see when you look at text?” The answer for most is no, because surely the answer is obvious – they just see text. This assumption stems from the idea that we all visually perceive things the same, however, what if this were not true? If you knew that for some children just ...
English is primarily concerned with helping pupils to be successful communicators in both written and spoken language. Pupils need to learn to express themselves in an effective way; correctly, appropriately and with some feeling for the language they use. Reading, writing, listening and talking, the essential elements...
Skip to content The development of law enforcement in colonial America was similar to that of England during the same time period. Law enforcement in colonial America was considered a local responsibility. As in England, the colonies established a system of night watch to guard cities against fire, crime, and disorder....
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, which was passed by the Indian parliament on 4 August 2009, describes the modalities of the provision of free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14 in India under Article 21A of the Indian Constitution. India became one of 135 countries to mak...
Orphaned Earwig Insects Learn To Grow Big On Their Own, But Abandon Offspring, Too Abandonment can have long-lasting effects on animals that depend on maternal care during the early years of their life. Often, mothers provide vital food and protection for their young, so newborns may struggle when learning to forage an...
When it comes to disease prevention, a good strategy and proper preparation are the keys to success. All infectious and bloodborne diseases may be prevented, but they can be especially difficult to control in a school environment. Major strategies for prevention include hand washing, immunization and cleaning for healt...
Today we studied the Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s journey is a popular theory that shows how most popular fiction follows a certain sequence of events. Joseph Campbell originated the theory which has become a corner stone of fiction studies. We discussed the elements of the hero’s journey and shared some examples such as...
MS begins with an inflammation in your central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord). This is followed by the loss of the protective myelin sheaths that are wrapped around nerve fibers. Myelin is like the insulation that covers and protects electrical wires. When the myelin is damaged, nerve impulses are slowed, g...
Crockett was elected to the legislature in Tennessee and then to the U.S. Congress. 1. Pair off with a friend. Each of you will write a paragraph about what you want to be when you What are some good things about the job you chose? What are some bad things? What do you need to learn to be able to do that job? 2. Read y...
An iceberg floats through the water in Ilulissat, Greenland, in July. Researchers are studying how climate change and melting glaciers will affect the rest of the world. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The surface tower at a drill site, under construction during blistering Antarctic winds. Data from instruments, deployed throu...
The Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, has been around since the early 1980s. It was developed to provide a standard way of interfacing music controllers such as keyboards to sound generators like synthesisers and drum machines. As such, it was originally designed to work via a serial connection and can be ...
Origins of the English Language There are approximately 7 billion people in the world and around 400 million speak English as their native tongue. Between 1.5 and 2 billion people have at least a slight competence in the language. This makes English the third-most spoken language in the world behind Mandarin Chinese an...
While many hoped that Missouri would remain neutral, loyalists of North and South brought forth conflict that promised to keep the state in turmoil. On Aug. 10, 1861, Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon’s Army of the West clashed with Confederate troops commanded by Brigadier General Benjamin McCullough at the battle of W...
The terms "3D printing" and "additive manufacturing" already have a prominent place in the manufacturing lexicon. But while the technology is two decades old, we are just now seeing the beginning of what could be a revolution in how we make things. Among the most exciting applications of the technology is combining it ...
KENO is a kind of lottery game in which numbers are drawn from a blower and announced aloud for players to cross them out on their cards. It looks a lot like BINGO, only without the letters on top. You may have seen the games of KENO played at casinos all over the world or sold in toy and game shops. In this article, w...
The Battle of Rhode Island In August 1788 Rhode Island was the setting for one of the major land battles of the Revolutionary War. The Marquis de Lafayette, in writing of this encounter, termed it "the best fought action of the war." The immediate goal of the Continental Army at this time was to drive the British from ...
Explaining why slaves fled their owners during the Civil War seemingly is easy. With the approach of Union forces, they saw a chance to be free and took it. However, it is also useful in comprehending the slaves’ motives to understand what they were fleeing from. Among the what became clearer to northern troops as they...
On 15 September 1935, the Nuremberg Race Laws were instituted in Nazi Germany. Since Hitler’s rise to power in early 1933, Jews in German society had been subjected to increasingly discriminatory legislation, which mainly restricted their public rights. The Nuremberg Laws, however, went further still in alienating the ...
Religion played an important role in each of the British colonies – for different reasons. In Virginia, the Anglican church was the official religion of the colonial government and colonists had to attend or be fined, so churches like Christ Church became important sites for political, economic, and social activity tha...
Write a short dystopian story. First answer the questions in the guide attached. Dystopian stories arise from imagined settings in which a society has sought to create a perfect way of life—a utopia. However, because trying to create perfection tends to result in a loss of freedom, these societies backfire and become d...
Key Dinosaur Characteristics Like their thecodont ancestors, dinosaurs are extinct diapsid reptiles, often-bipedal—that is, they are extinct reptiles with a pair of holes in the skull behind each eye (figure 45.55), many of which walked on two feet. The great marine (ocean-swimming) reptiles of those times, ichthyosaur...
The National Curriculum: State schools in England must teach a range of subjects according to targets set by the National Curriculum. The National Curriculum covers learning for all children aged 5-16 in state schools, and sets out: which subjects should be taught the knowledge, skills and understanding your child shou...
About 99 percent of hurricanes occur during hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30 in the Atlantic Ocean and May 15 to November 30 in the Pacific Ocean. In the Atlantic and Pacific, September is the month with the most hurricanes. During an average season, three hurricane-strength storms occur in Septe...
Spoken and Written Instructions This resource also includes: - Answer Key - Join to access all included materials In this ELL grammar instructional activity, students work with spoken and written instructions. They match the parts of sentences to form an instruction. They write their own imperatives using the given lis...
The ever expanding demand on land, sea and fresh water, along with the climatic adversities have made the conservation and management of wild areas and wild animals a top priority. Wild animals have been the critical source of food, fur, leather for a long time for human existence. But recently due to high economic and...
Kindergarten One Program objective is to develop the groundwork for a sound sense of belonging and personal achievement. The curriculum is planned into thematic units that builds upon a series of hands-on activities which are integrated throughout all subject areas and learning corners. The process of acquiring languag...
As a doctrine, positivism believes the basis for knowledge and thought should depend on the scientific method. It was introduced by Auguste Comte, a French philosopher who coined the term “positivism.” The positivist does not derive conclusions from a subjective approach and does not let feelings and emotions cloud his...
While working on Wake Up Your Brain, your students will be enhancing their problem solving, common sense, and inquisitive thinking skills. -Do Wake Up Your Brain first thing in the mornings! -The Wake Up Your Brain Grid Page (slide 1) is clickable. Simply click a photo you want the students to do, then it will go to th...
Discussions of black holes in space tend to veer toward science-fiction. Couple that with stories of water on distant planets or moons and you have a tale that many would find hard to believe. However, as National Geographic recently reported, traces of water outside the realm of Earth is now science-fact and evidence ...
Hydrocarbon, any of a class of organic chemical compounds composed only of the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H). The carbon atoms join together to form the framework of the compound, and the hydrogen atoms attach to them in many different configurations. Hydrocarbons are the principal constituents of petroleum and ...
Asthma is a condition in which the lungs and air passages become inflamed and constricted, interfering with normal breathing. During the first stage of an asthmatic response, inhaled allergens or other irritants cause the airways to constrict. During the second stage, an inflammatory response causes the airways to swel...
How to Get Started With 4 Common Types of Writing While not every child is destined to become a famous-or infamous-writer, everyone needs to write in a variety of writing typesduring his or her lifetime. From letters to speeches to reports, it is important to expose our children to a variety of types of writing. Here a...
To understand the concept of natural selection. Through the use of an interactive activity, this lesson focuses on the concept of natural selection. By the end of elementary school, students should know that individual organisms of the same kind differ in their characteristics, and that sometimes these differences give...
Researchers in France have created lithium-ion battery electrodes with several times the energy capacity, by weight and volume, of conventional electrodes. The new electrodes could help shrink the size of cell-phone and laptop batteries, or else increase the length of time a device could run on a charge. What’s more, t...
In this stage, process of writing actual program takes place. A coded program is most popularly referred to as a source code. The coding process can be done in any language (high level and low level). The actual use of computer takes place in this stage in which the programmer writes a sequence of instructions ready fo...
Math is definitely challenging but what makes learning math fun and interesting is that, there are some tricks and techniques which can actually make the calculations easy to solve. Today, we will try to learn some math tricks which can be applied in solving different kinds of questions. Multiplying a given number by 2...
Insights into Editorial: More than just a counting game November 19th was World Toilet Day, with the theme ‘Wastewater and Faecal Sludge Management’. In India, there is greater awareness about the importance of using toilets, largely due to the high profile, flagship programme Swachh Bharat Mission launched in 2014, so...
The book includes engaging articles to stimulate and hold the interest of students who are reading below grade level. Lower reading levels are achieved through the use of controlled vocabulary, simple sentence structure, and clear illustrations. The questions and student activity sheets are designed to improve the read...
It’s hard to imagine water lasting for long on today’s Martian surface. But a team at NASA’s Ames Research Center has been studying gully sites that seem to indicate water outflows from what could be a subsurface aquifer. Indeed, the team’s computer simulations show that if liquid water did emerge from underground, it ...
Cicero Biography, Life, Interesting Facts Died On : Also Known For : Birth Place : Cicero was an Ancient Roman politician, orator, and philosopher. He is best known for the role he played during the civil wars and political instability that plagued Rome in the first half of the first century B.C. He is considered by ma...
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Terminology such as m...
About this dataset Beneath the waters of the world's ocean, the Earth's surface isn't flat like the bottom of a glass or large bowl. There are giant mountain ranges and huge cracks where the ocean floor is ripping apart. Underwater volcanoes are slowly building up into mountains that may one day rise above the sea surf...
Use songs and music to learn about Virginia's involvement in the American Revolution! Students will learn about the contributions of James Armistead Lafayette and General Marquis de Lafayette who participated in the Revolutionary War in Virginia. This worksheet has uses 2 songs that can be accessed on YouTube for stude...
The Ebola virus and it’s close relative the Marburg virus are members of the Filoviridae family. These viruses are the causative agents of severe hemorrhagic fever, a disease with a fatality rate of up to 90% . The Ebola virus infects mainly the capillary endothelium and several types of immune cells. The symptoms of E...
Intended Audience: Teachers, prospective teachers, and parents (public, private, homeschool). In this video, 6-year-old Autumn explains that the meaning of “2 to the power of 4” is a product of four factors of 2: This is the beginning of exponentiation and it is easy to understand—the power (in this case, 4) tells us h...
The peat bogs at Lindow Moss date back to the last ice age and were formed by holes of melting ice; they are now a tenth of their original size. Bogs often lead to the preservation of organic materials, particularly human remains, being acidic, cold, and devoid of oxygen. The brown colour of the skin, leathery texture,...
The slight inaccuracy in the Julian year amounted to a loss of about three-quarters of a day in a century. By 1582 the spring equinox fell on March 11 instead of March 21. Pope Gregory XIII therefore decreed that the day following October 4, 1582, should be the 15th instead of the fifth of the month. To avoid future di...
On your mark. Get set. Click on ways to get students moving inside and outside of the classroom! The wonderful thing about vigorous play on climbers (the type with a variety of climbing options as well as a few slides) is that you just "let it happen." Free play on a climber in a well-designed play area naturally inspi...
Indigenous culture in Canada is present and strong despite the attempted cultural genocide it had to endure. Through the use of symbolism, Aaron Paquette is sending the viewer a message of hope in his painting ‘Seven Grandfather Teachings’. He is referring to the European Settlers’ attempted assimilation of First Natio...
The primitive ocean was the first ocean formed on the Earth four billion years ago. It was born from both condensation and precipitation of water vapour released by volcanoes during the degassing of the planet, and the extraterrestrial contributions of water from comets and meteorites. This water, which became charged ...
6+1 Traits of Writing PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Teachers use these Traits to help students learn the specific skills necessary to make their writing really work. - Ideas: The meaning and development of the message. - Organization: The internal structure of the piece. - Voice: The way the writer brings the topic to life. - ...
Geoffrey Chaucer , sometimes called „father of English literature“, was the preeminent English poet, and still retains the position as the most significant poet to write in Middle English. Chaucer was born in the early 1340s to a middle-class family. His father, John Chaucer, was a vintner and deputy to the king's butl...
Like most native New Zealand skinks, the chevron skink (Oligosoma homalonotum) gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs. This appears to be an adaptation to a cool climate. It is likely that around 16 million years ago, during the early Miocene period, New Zealand was warmer and had a more diverse reptile faun...
A new study used a model of seasonal affective disorder to find out why some people don’t develop depression despite being genetically predisposed to it. The findings also shed light on potential new treatments for seasonal depression. Seasonal depression affects about 5 percent of the U.S. The National Institute of Me...
Diabetes occurs when the body has trouble using the sugar it gets from food for energy. Sugar builds up in the bloodstream. High blood sugar can have immediate effects, like blurry vision. It can also cause problems over time, like heart disease and blindness. There are two main types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes (once...
A teaching method comprises the principles and methods used by teachers to enable student learning. These strategies are determined partly on subject matter to be taught and partly by the nature of the learner. Encouraging children to try out new things and ideas is a crucial factor in their intellectual, physical and ...
Reading (and Scaffolding) Expository Texts Expository text differs greatly from narrative text in tone, style, structure, and features.First, expository texts purvey a tone of authority, since the authors possess authentic and accurate information on the subjects they write about (Fisher &Frey, 2008). Second, these tex...
Understanding a type of air waves in the Mars’ atmosphere improves the meteorology for the red planet, according to a study led by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA). Mars has a very thin atmosphere, with nearly one hundredth the density of ours on Earth, and gravity pulls with little more than one ...
UPI/Benjamin Nocerini/US Coast Guard/Eyevine Following a record winter in many ways, Arctic sea-ice cover seems poised to reach one of its smallest winter maxima ever. As of 28 February, ice covered 14.525 million square kilometres, or 938,000 square kilometres less than the 1981–2010 average. And researchers are using...
Social and Emotional Learning Reading Comprehension (Big Feelings for Big Kids) Combine social and emotional learning (SEL) with reading comprehension using these 18 passages. Each passage depicts a scene with characters experiencing complex feelings and emotions that upper elementary students may face in their own liv...
A rare astronomical event will take place on November 11, 2019: Mercury will pass directly between the Earth and Sun. For several hours, the planet will appear silhouetted against our daytime star. What’s a transit? Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. Its orbit is therefore much smaller than Earth's: while our pl...