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Why earth spins like a top?

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Earth spins on its axis like a top in a movement called?

Rotation


The earth spins on its axis like a top in a movement?

Essentially, yes.


Does the earth have a top and a bottom?

The Earth doesn't have a top or a bottom because it spins on its axis always changing the top or the bottom


What are other earth's movement aside from rotation and revolution?

The Earth spins like a top around its own axis. The Earth orbits the Sun. The Sun has its own proper motion through the Milky Way galaxy, and orbits the center of the galaxy every 220 million years or so. The Milky Way galaxy itself is moving, but because we don't have any fixed point of reference in the universe, we don't know in what direction.


How come at night time you are not upside down if the earth spins at night?

Because the Earth spins on a near vertical axis like a top or a basketball spinning on a finger. But if you were upside down you wouldn't know anymore about it than do the people in Australia.


Earth spins on its?

If you mean earth spins in its? Then the answer is Earth spins on its axis, while also orbiting the Sun.


Just like the earth the sun on its axis?

Spins.


What planet spins like a top?

All of the planets spin like a top, even the Sun!


What does the earth spins on?

the earth spins on an axis, which is carried over by conservation of angular momentum when the earth was created


Why doesn't rain sink to the bottom of the earth-?

Rain sinks into the surface of the Earth where it can. There is no bottom or top to the Earth since it continuously spins on its axis.


Does the earth spin around the sun or moon?

The Earth neither spins round the Sun nor the Moon. The Earth rotates(spins) on it own axis, top give us night and day. The Moon revolves (orbits) round the Earth once a month (Moonth). The Earth and Moon, as a binary system revolve (orbit) round the Sun once a year. The Moon making 13 orbits of the Earth in once a year.


What are earths motions?

The motion of the Earth is like the motion of a top; a precession. The Earth spins on it's axis and makes a full rotation every 23 hr. and 56 min. causing day and night.