Question 1579Navigation General

The correct answer is A) ecliptic. The ecliptic is the apparent path that the Sun appears to take among the stars as the Earth orbits the Sun over the course of a year. This path is defined by the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. The other answer choices are incorrect - the line of apsides refers to the major axis of an elliptical orbit, the zodiac is the band of constellations the Sun appears to pass through, and the Tropic of Cancer is a latitude line, not the path of the Sun.