What BEST describes the shape of the Earth's orbit?

Answer 1

The Earth is roughly spherical, and as such has no points. Even the greatest surface variations (Mt. Everest and the Mariana Trench) are insignificant when compared to the Earth's diameter; in fact, they are less significant than the greatest surface variations on a billiard ball.

Answer 2

The Sun is more or less at the center of the Solar System. Earth moves around this center, in an elipse, one revolution per year, at a distance of about 150 million km.

The Sun is more or less at the center of the Solar System. Earth moves around this center, in an elipse, one revolution per year, at a distance of about 150 million km.

The Sun is more or less at the center of the Solar System. Earth moves around this center, in an elipse, one revolution per year, at a distance of about 150 million km.

The Sun is more or less at the center of the Solar System. Earth moves around this center, in an elipse, one revolution per year, at a distance of about 150 million km.

Answer 3

The earth simply hangs over nothing in space. God clearly left it for us writen in his word The Bible in Job 26:7: He is stretching out the north over the empty place, Hanging the earth upon nothing

Answer 4

Rising from the eastern horizon in the early morning, crossing the sky in the south,

setting into the western horizon in the late evening, remaining above the horizon

throughout the day. That's how it looks in our particular neighborhood.

Answer 5

The earths position in relation to sun varies. The earth is hurdling around the sun at an astonishing 18.5 miles/sec (30 km/sec)!!! The earth has to complete 583 million miles (938,900,000 km) in only 365 days. So it needs to move fast!! So at each second of the day day the earth is in a different position in relation to the sun..

Answer 6

The solar system consists of the planets and debris in orbit around our star. There are many solar systems in our galaxy, ours is but one of myriads (many thousands--possibly even billions). Each of the stars in our galaxy orbits about the center of the galaxy. Our sun requires some 200 million years to complete one orbit. To give some idea of the scale of the solar system, although earth whips around the sun once every year, Uranus (the furthest planet from the sun within our solar system) takes 84 years. Pluto takes 250 years to complete one revolution. While it would take light some 25 hours to cross from one section of the solar system to the other, it takes light 263 million hours (30 thousand years) to get from the sun to the center of the galaxy.

The Milky Way Galaxy is about a hundred thousand light years from side to side, and is one of some one hundred billion galaxies existing within our universe. Does the Milky Way Galaxy occupy a special place within the universe? No. Our galaxy is large, but otherwise fairly unremarkable. Our sister galaxy, Andromeda, is the biggest galaxy in our local group (about 20 galaxies). There are some galaxy WAY bigger than ours, containing trillions of stars.

Answer 7

The Earth's orbit around the Sun is an ellipse, with low eccentricity. That means that the orbit is ALMOST a circle, but not quite.

Answer 8

It is a nearly circular ellipse.

Answer 9

The planet earth symbolizes... i don't really know, look somewhere else...

planet earth symbolizes life

Answer 10

Those two reference systems are called the heliocentric and the geocentric.