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The angular momemtum of pretty much the whole solar system is in that direction. All the planets revolve that way, the sun rotates that way, and almost all of the planets rotate that way. Venus is the odd exception, and it rotates backward, but very slowly. The primordial stuff that eventually coalesced into the solar system was on average moving that way when it started, so that's the way it rotates still.

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The Earth rotates because this spin represents the nett rotation properties once it had assembled from random rocks and meteor bits.

As to whether it rotates clockwise or anticlockwise, that depends upon where you are looking at it from.

If you were above the north pole, it appears to rotate anticlockwise.

if you were above the south pole, it would appear to rotate clockwise.

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Yes. If you were above the north pole, you'd see the earth rotating counterclockwise just like its Orbit around the sun.

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Rotates from East to West

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The reason the Earth rotates the way it does is conservation of angular momentum.

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Gravitational pull

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