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What do you mean by tilt of the earth?
The earth orbits the sun. As the earth orbits the sun, the earth also spins on its axis. The axis goes through the north and south poles. The axis tilts in relationship to the earth's orbit. That tilt is called the tilt of the earth. If you have a globe mounted in a stand, that is why the globe is tilted instead of mounted straight up and down.
What does the earth rotate or spin on?
Its axis The earth rotates around its axis - an imaginary line running from the North Pole through the centre of the earth to the South Pole. It rotates around this line once every day. it is this rotation which causes day and night. axis
What is the responsible for setting up the differences between the tropical temperature and polar zones?
Earth's tilt
What planets spins horizonntally on its axis and not vertically?
Uranus: it has an axial tilt of 97.8 degrees.
Why is one luck to have an axial tilt?
because deep in the crust of the planet, a gas is released which is heavy and is the only gas that sinks, so it forces the planet onto a tilt, which is why it spins on an axial tilt.
how much angle earth angled?
If you mean the" tilt" of the Earth's axis, it's about 23.5 degrees from the perpendicular to the Earth's orbit.
What do you mean by tilt of the earth?
The earth orbits the sun. As the earth orbits the sun, the earth also spins on its axis. The axis goes through the north and south poles. The axis tilts in relationship to the earth's orbit. That tilt is called the tilt of the earth. If you have a globe mounted in a stand, that is why the globe is tilted instead of mounted straight up and down.
How long does the axis of the earth exend?
Earth's axial tilt is about 23.5 degrees. an invisible line around which an object spins.
Why is the worlds on a axis?
The axis is actually an imaginary line that the Earth spins around. It represents the tilt of the Earth relative to its orbit.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis called?
The tilt of the earth's axis is called ecliptic. The tilt of the earth's axis will vary in most cases between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees.
What creates seasons on Earth?
The Earth spins on its tilted axis. This tilt is what causes the seasons. When its axis points towards the sun then it is Summer when it points away is winter.
Which describes how earth's orbit around the sun determines the seasons of earth?
As you might know that the earth spins on a tilt. So when one side of the earth's tilt is closer to the sun its summer and the side that is far away from the sun its winter. That is why there are tropical zones which hardly tilt so the weather there mostly stay the same with a little difference in temperature.
What is the change in Earth's tilt called?
Procession.
Which planet spins on a 97 degree angle to the vertical axis?
Mercury's axis tilt is 0°. Venus' axis tilt is 177.4°. Earth's axis tilt is 23.5°. Mars' axis tilt is 25.2°. Jupiter's axis tilt is 3.1°. Saturn's axis tilt is 25.3°. Uranus' axis tilt is 97.8°. Neptune's axis tilt is 28.8°. Pluto's axis tilt is 122.5°.
What does the earth rotate or spin on?
Its axis The earth rotates around its axis - an imaginary line running from the North Pole through the centre of the earth to the South Pole. It rotates around this line once every day. it is this rotation which causes day and night. axis
How far can earth tilt?
earth can not tilt it is a sphere and they do not tilt
What is different from earth and Venus's?
Earth has water, oxygen on it whereas Venus doesn't. Venus has a temperature of about 480 degrees Celsius, and Earth's average temperature is 15 degrees Celsius. Earth spins anticlockwise and has a tilt in its axis which creates the seasons, however Venus spins clockwise and doesn't have a tilt which means if there was life on Venus, they would not have seasons. Venus' pressure is about 90 times bigger than Earth's. That's all I know from the top of my head right now.
