SCIENCE
EARTH SCIENCE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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clockwise
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anti-clockwise
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Earth rotates around the Sun from west to east in the anticlockwise direction. This causes day and night in different parts of the world at different times.
Detailed explanation-2: -Earth rotates counterclockwise when viewed from the north pole star Polaris. The solar system was created from a disc of material that began to rotate counterclockwise, as we know it today. Because of the conservation of angular momentum, the Sun and the planets spun counterclockwise as they formed from the material.
Detailed explanation-3: -Compared to the planets given, our neighboring planet Venus is the only one which spins in the anti-clockwise manner.
Detailed explanation-4: -If something is moving anticlockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
Detailed explanation-5: -However, scientists prefer to see it from the North Pole and part of the reason is that observations done in the past were based on the North Pole. Therefore, the Earth rotates in an anti-clockwise direction around the Sun.