Is the Earth rotating on an axis?

Answer 1

yes it does!!! Actually the rotational axis of the earth is inclined 23.15' from the vertical to the ecliptic. It is this inclination that produces the seasons on earth so the deviation is not trivial.

Answer 2

it stays the same... because the summer is tilted toward the sun and not away... and the winter is the farthest away from the sun... and so for it to be spring it has to face the same way as fall so that means that they are facing excactialy the same way

Answer 3

The north end of the earth's axis points toward a point in the sky that's a little

less than 1/3 of a degree from Polaris. That's why, as close as we can tell by our

eyes, Polaris appears to mark the north pole of the sky, everything else we can

see appears to circle Polaris, and we call Polaris the 'North Star'.

The south end of the earth's axis points to a spot in the southern sky with no

comparably bright star nearby to mark it.

Answer 4

The Earth's axis points in the same direction all the time. (It does move, but

so slowly that the move is almost undetectable during the course of a human

lifetime.) The north pole always points toward a point in the sky that's about

1/3 of a degree away from the North Star. That means that the Earth's

northern Hemisphere is slightly tilted toward the sun when we're on one side

of the sun, and slightly away from the sun when we're on the other side of it.

Whichever half of the Earth happens to be slightly tilted away from the sun is

the half that's having Winter.

Answer 5

No - or rather, not much. The axis gradually moves around, making a full circle in about 26,000 years; this is called precession. There are also other changes, including changes to the angle - but all of these changes are very gradual. For most practical purposes, you can consider Earth's axis to be fixed for quite a while.

Answer 6

Relative to our frame of reference it is. But relative to the sun and our orbital plane, our axis is inclined about 23.5 degrees. And relative to the rest of the galaxy, our solar system is inclined over 30 degrees, making our axis almost at a right angle to the rest of the galaxy.

Answer 7

The end of the earth's axis that pops up out of the ground at the north pole points

toward a point in the sky very near the star "Polaris", called the "North Celestial Pole".

The end of the axis that pops up out of the ground at the south pole points toward

a point in the sky that's 180 degrees from the North Celestial Pole. After many high-

level conferences of scientists, their consorts, and their support staffs, in some of the

finest accommodations and recreation resorts throughout Europe and the New World,

during the 18th and 19th Centuries, it was finally decided to refer to this point as the

"South Celestial Pole".

Answer 8

The Earth's RotationThe Earth is rotating around an axis (called its rotational axis). Some objects rotate about a horizontal axis, like a rolling log. Some objects, such as a skater, rotate about a vertical axis. The Earth's axis is tipped over about 23.5° from vertical.

How do we define up and down in space? What would "vertical" mean? For the Earth, we can think of vertical as straight up and down with respect to the plane in which the Earth orbits the Sun (called the ecliptic).

Earth's rotational axis points in the same direction relative to the stars, so that the North Pole points towards the star Polaris. Think of the Earth as a spinning top, tipped over to one side. Over very long time periods (thousands of years) the direction of Earth's axis slowly changes due to precession.

The Earth rotates around once in 24 hours - that's a rate of 1000 miles per hour!. The time it takes for the Earth to rotate completely around once is what we call a day. It's Earth's rotation that gives us night and day.

The combined effect of the Earth's tilt and its orbital motion result in the seasons.

Answer 9

listen they say that is when earth will end.but u know about 20 other times they said that earth was going to end in a certain year.like they said the end of the worl will be in 1954.did it happen?are we still here?is earth alive?YES it is!!!besides it says earth will live for another 3-5 billion more years.earth wouldn't die if we wouldn't stop using recources.we all know were destroying earth.Do people care?NO!!!! they r idiots.scientist hurt poor earth every day.one day earth will be like mars.then after a while.itll b more like Venus.then when the sun is dead.itll get sucked into a black if the sun collapses under its own gravity.

Answer 10

The north end of the earth's axis points toward a point in the sky that's a little

less than 1/3 of a degree from Polaris. That's why, as close as we can tell by our

eyes, Polaris appears to mark the north pole of the sky, and we call Polaris the

'North Star'.

The south end of the earth's axis points to a spot in the southern sky with no

comparably bright star nearby to mark it.

The places that the axis points to don't move, at least not within a human lifetime. The

ends of the axis point to the same points in all seasons, and on every day of the year.

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