Earth's Rotation Vocabulary

Rotation

• Making a complete orbit around the sun

• Making a complete spin on an axis

• Making a complete spin around other planets

• Remaining stationary

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Earth is rotating around its tilted axis at a rate of about ___________ miles per hour.

The time it takes the Earth to make one complete spin on its axis. (24 Hours)

• axis

• gravity

• rotation

• sundial

A line, real or imaginary, around which something spins.

• sundial

• gravity

• rotation

• axis

Spinning of the Earth on its axis is called...

• rotation

• revolution

• orbit

• double axis

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The spinning motion of the Earth on its axis

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Orbit

• Pattern

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It takes ~ 24 hours for Earth to rotate on 

                      its axis

• Day/Night Cycle

• Revolution

• Spin

• Orbit

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When viewed from above, the Earth revolves around the Sun in which direction? (The Earth also rotates in the same direction.)

• clockwise

• counterclockwise

• it doesn't move

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The imaginary line around which the Earth rotates is called the:

• Equator

• Axis

• Orbit

• Meridian

What is the term for the Earth's spinning motion on its axis?

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Orbit

• Translation