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What action causes day and night the earth orbits the sun or Earth rotates on its axis?
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The earth rotates on its axis.
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How do the earth rotates?
The Earth rotates in not a perfect circle around the sun but in a oval shape.
Does the sun orbit anything?
Yes, it orbits the galactic center.The sun is one of billions of stars that comprise the Milky Way galaxy - a more or less flat circular disk of stars that rotates about it's centre. Therefore, the sun "orbit" the centre of the galaxy in a manner analogous to how the earth orbits the sun.
What is the satellite that orbits the earth called?
There are many.
Why does the moon follows you?
because it rotates around earth.
What causes the climates on earth to stay about the same year after year?
because the earth orbits in the same pattern.
What does the earth rotates around?
The Earth rotates around it's axis.The Earth revolves around the Sun.
When the earth rotates what is it called?
When the earth rotates, it is called orbit so we say the earth orbits around the sun.
How does the sun and the moon move across the earth?
umm... the sun does't move but the earth orbits the sun once a year and it rotates on its axis once every 24 hours this causes night and day. The moon orbits the earth i think :)
What does the moon have?
the sun stays still the earth ROTATES and orbits while the earth ORBITS on its AXIS it turns around till it is dark and the moon orbits around the earth.
When the moon rotates around the sun what happens to the moon?
The Moon does not orbit the Sun; it orbits the Earth. The Earth orbits the Sun.
Since the moon always keeps the same side facing earth does it rotates on its on axis?
Yes, it rotates at the same rate it orbits the Earth.
Which planet rotates 1.5 times as it orbits the sun?
Mercury rotates once every 58.6 Earth days, and orbits the Sun in about 88 Earth days.The result is that Mercury's "solar day" is about 176 Earth days, twice as long as its year.
What is the time period taken by the moon to rotate?
Every 28 days, or a month, the moon rotates entirely around the Earth. The moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the Sun.
Does the moon rotate around earth?
No The moon roates around the earth. The earth rotates around the sun within the solar system.
Does the Moon Rotates around the Earth elliptically?
Yes. In fact, ALL orbits are elliptical.
Why does Ohio experience the change of seasons?
It is because the earth rotates(orbits) around the sun. :)
Does the earth rotate as it orbits around the sun?
it rotates around the sun slightly slanted or on an axle
