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The Earth is a sphere and it's just the half sphere facing the Sun that can get sunlight. So, half the Earth is always getting sunlight.
But it's not the same half all the time, because the Earth rotates.
Any particular place gets more hours of daylight in the summer than in the winter.
It averages out, over the full year, at 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night every 24 hours.
So, it's any particular place on Earth that gets light for half the day, on average.
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Why do you change from day time to night time every 12 hours?
It is not like that. Earth revolves around the sun and Earth is sphere and when suns rays fall on earth the half earth gets light but half did not get it. Since Earth rotates about its own axis slowly the half sides gets alternately as 12hours and 24 hours as a day. In one day 12hours get half Earth light and next 12 half night that is no light
Why does the earth experience moon phases?
The sun sets a glare on only one part of the moon each day. During a full moon the moon reflects light towards the Earth. During a new moon the moon reflects light away from the Earth.
What happend to the other side of the moon in half moon day?
Nothing happens to the other side of the Moon in half moon days. The reason we do not see the whole Moon is because only half of it is reflecting the light from the Sun.
How can side of the earth dark and the other side be sunny?
The main thing to remember is that the Earth is a sphere. It's the same sort of shape as a basketball. The Earth blocks out the Sun so it can't light the side of Earth facing away from the Sun. A simple experiment: Take a ball and hold it to a light. The half of the ball facing the light will be lit up and the other side will be dark. Rotate the ball and different parts will now be light and dark. That's like what happens as the Earth rotates. That's why a place on Earth has day then night.
What is longer a day on Earth or a day on Jupiter?
Earth, Jupiter's days only last about 10 hours.
Why do you change from day time to night time every 12 hours?
It is not like that. Earth revolves around the sun and Earth is sphere and when suns rays fall on earth the half earth gets light but half did not get it. Since Earth rotates about its own axis slowly the half sides gets alternately as 12hours and 24 hours as a day. In one day 12hours get half Earth light and next 12 half night that is no light
Why earth has night and day?
Earth has day and nights because the sun can only shine on one part of the Earth at a time, resulting in one half of the Earth in darkness, and one half of the Earth with light. The days and nights last only 12 hours because the Earth rotates around the sun once every 24 hours. Half of the time, the sun will shine an a particular spot on the Earth, the other half of the time, the sun will not shine causing darkness.
Scientific Concept of day and night by animation?
You would need to show the Sun with light emitted from it. The light should fall on a spherical Earth and illuminate only the half nearer the Sun.
Why does half of earth experience night when the other half of earth is experiencing day?
The Sun is a single source of light. Therefore it can only shine its light on one side of the Earth at a time. The other side is then obviously dark. Try shining a torch on a tennis ball in a dark room. One side will by light and the other side will be dark.Apart from the dark and light part,there is also a part that is fairly dark known as the prenumbra. dark-umbra fairly dark-prenumbra
Why earth is half overed with light and half in darkness everytme?
There's only one source of light that's strong enough and close enough to really light up the surface of the Earth and that's the Sun. And with only one light source, you can't have light on both sides of an object at the same time. When there's a full moon and clear skies, the moon will reflect light from the sun onto the otherwise dark side of the Earth, but that reflected light will be a lot weaker than the direct sunlight that the day side is getting.
How does night turns to day?
Simple, as the sun is in one direction, only half of the earth can see the sun but as the earth rotates on its axis, this half keeps moving and you get day and night
Why do you have a day and night?
Because the earth rotates (spins). Half the time you are facing the sun (light/day). The other half you are on the side away from the sun (dark/night).
Why do you a day and night?
Because the earth rotates (spins). Half the time you are facing the sun (light/day). The other half you are on the side away from the sun (dark/night).
Will your weed plant still bud with 11 and a half hours light and 12 hours dark?
Probably not. Because if your day is only 23.5 hours long you are not on planet earth!
What does the earth orbit to make one day?
the Earth dosn't orbit around anything to make a day it spins around slowly once also when it's spinning half of it is facing the sun, that is called daytime where there is full light on the half of it that is facing away that is called nightime, where there is no light
Why cant the whole part of earth experience day at the same time?
the earth rotates on an axis. When it rotates, half of it is exposed and half of it is not.
If Earth didn't rotate would there be day and night?
No because if the earth did not rotate there would either be only day or only night .
