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What cause the earth day night?
First understand that night is caused when a point on a planet rotates with the planet so that it is not pointing towards the sun (it rotates into the shadow of its planet). When it is pointing towards the sun it is day!On Earth as the planet rotates once on its axis every 24 hours, a point on its surface will be in shadow for 12 hours at a time and in daylight for the other 12 hours.------------------------------------------------------------When the Earth spins around on its axis, it creates night and day on Earth. This movement makes it look like the Sun is moving across the sky. The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west, turning day into night.Most places on Earth have some amount of day and night every 24 hours. On Earth, the length of day and night usually changes with the seasons.When your location on Earth is facing toward the sun, it is day. When your location is facing away from the sun, it is night.Only the half of the rotating Earth that faces the Sun is illuminated at any given time.
Which way does the earth spin?
Counter-clockwise. It's easy to tell. In NY, when it's lunchtime, it's breakfast time in California, which is 3 hours behind. That means that the West Coast sees the sun 3 hours later than the East Coast. Now imagine you're looking down from above and you have the Sun out to the side as the Earth rotates...in order for the East Coast to see the sun first, the planet rotates to the left, or counter-clockwise. The way I see it is the sun moves through the sky to the right. So that tell's me the earth turns to the left
Was Leonardo da Vinci the first person to explain why the sky is blue?
No, da Vinci was not the first person to explain why the sky is blue. John Tyndall was the fist person to begin to explain this phenomenon in 1859.
Who was the first person to live on earth?
According to the Bible, a man named Adam.According to current scientific findings, the first person on earth was an unnamed and unspecified individual of homo sapiens, around 200000 years ago.
What was the first organism evolved on earth around 4 billion years ago?
Single cell prokaryotes first appeared perhaps 3.8 billion years ago.
Name the person first discovered that the Earth is a sphere and that it rotates around its axis.?
The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras is credited with being the first person to suggest that the Earth is a sphere and that it rotates around its axis.
Who was the first European to believe that the Earth rotates around the Sun?
Nicholas Copernicus
How do the clouds shield earth from the sun during rainy season since the earth rotates?
Well this is the misconception most of the people have. In the first place as far as rotation of earth is concerned, earth is no different from clouds. When you say earth rotates, it includes the atmosphere(the gaseous layer which surrounds it) as well. So as a whole earth along with the gaseous layer around it rotates, thus effectively there is no relative motion between earth and clouds due to the rotation of earth. Hope this has answered your question! --Naveen Gara
What do we call the time when the Earth rotates and the first rays of sunlight fall on a particular place?
That time is called sunrise. It marks the beginning of the day when the sun's rays first appear over the horizon, illuminating the Earth as it rotates.
Who were some of the first scientists to believe the earth rotates?
pancho villa y Benito juarez
What rotates the sun in one day?
Do you mean, "What revolves around the sun in one day?" or do you mean, "What rotates, so that the sun appears to go completely around in one day?" If you mean the second one, the answer is the earth, since our day is defined by what appears as though the sun were making a complete revolution. If you mean the first, I know of nothing that revolves around the sun in one earth day. Mercury, the closest planet, takes about 88 days to do it. Earth takes about a year.
How does the moon rotate around earth?
The MOON rotates on its own axis. It is a very slow rotation compared to the Earth. It rotates on its own axis about every 28 days. It also revolves (Orbits) the Earth every 28/29 days. Consequently we only see approxiamtely 60% of the Moon's surface from Earth. It was only when spaceships were launchedto the Moon, that we saw the 'Far side of the Moon' for the first time in history. Like the Earth's orbital track about the Sun, the Moon's orbital track about the Earth is an ellipse. So sometimes it is nearer Earth and sometimes further away. The Earth lies at one of the foci (NOT the centre), of this orbit. Remember all astronomic bodies stars, moons, planets (Earth included), ROTATE on their own AXIS. They REVOLVE(Orbit) about other objects e.g. Suns.
When the side of earth first rotates into view of the sun what common term is used to describe this time of day?
When the side of the Earth first rotates into view of the Sun, this time of day is commonly referred to as "sunrise." It marks the beginning of daylight as the Sun appears to rise above the horizon, illuminating the landscape.
What country on earth gets the sunlight first?
Since the sun only shines on one side of the Earth at a time, one half of the Earth is in darkness and the other half in sunlight. It is only as the sun rotates on it's axis that different areas of the Earth experience night and day. A country never gets sunlight "first", as the night and day around the Earth is constantly changing.
What is the Moon's revolution time around the earth?
First, the moon revolves around the earth, it rotates on its axis. Viewed from the north pole, everything* in the solar system rotates counterclockwise. If you point the thumb of your right hand toward the north pole, the curl of your fingers show the rotation. In other words it's positive in a right-handed coordinate system. Everything also goes around the sun in a positive direction, too. *The only exception is Venus, which rotates backwards at a very slow rate, but still moves in the positive direction.
If the moon rotates around the earth then how does the same side of the moon face the earth?
First understand that Just like the Earth, the Moon does spin on its axis. However the spin of the Moon is "tidally locked" with Earth so that as the Moon orbits the Earth about every 27 days, it also makes one very slow spin in the same direction every 27 days. This means that no matter when you see the Moon, it always shows the same side to the Earth.
Are Night and day on earth caused by the earth's revolution around the sun?
No, First understand that night is caused when a point on a planet rotates with the planet so that it is not pointing towards the sun (it rotates into the shadow of its planet). On Earth as the planet rotates once on its axis every 24 hours, a point on its surface will be in shadow for 12 hours at a time. Earth's orbit round the Sun causes the seasons. Note that if the earth did not rotate, the orbit of the Earth around the sun would indeed be responsible for night and day - but night would last half the year and day would be the other half of the year. If the earth were locked rotationally with the sun such that it always kept one face to the sun (This is more or less the situation with the earth and the moon), one side of the earth would always have day and the other always be in night.
