Rotation and Revolution

1. The Earth spinning on its axis. Rotation Revolution

2. Going around a larger body. Rotation Revolution

Revolution

3. 24 hours. Rotation Revolution

4. Causes the Earth’s seasons. Rotation Revolution

5. Creates a year. Rotation Revolution

6. The moon going around Earth. Rotation Revolution

 Rotation
Spin or Turn on an Axis
 Axis
An imaginary line which runs through both poles
of a planet.
Examples of things that The time for one rotation on
rotate: Earth is 24 hours.
• tops
• Ballerinas The speed of Earth’s rotation
• Figure skaters is 24,855 miles/24 hr or
• Cyclones 1,038 miles/hr
• Tornadoes
• A merry-go-round
• Earth
Earth’s Axis is tilted 23.5
degrees from vertical

Vertical Axis Tilted at 23.5 degrees

 What do you observe
about the angle of the tilt?
 What do you observe
about the angle of the tilt?
 Rotation of the Earth causes?
• Rotation is the
A.) Days turning and
B.) Months spinning of the
Earth in one
C.) Years place on its
D.) Seasons imaginary axis.
• Rotation of the
earth on its axis
causes
 The Earth Continuously
Rotates on its Axis causing
Day and Night.
 Rotation causes day and night.
Rotates around once in 24
hours

The time required to rotate

completely
around once is called a day.
The Earth Continuously
Orbits the Sun or
Revolves
Revolution:
is the movement of one object around
a center or another object.

The Earth moves in definite

pattern around the Sun.
Earth’s revolution

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It takes 365.25 full rotations for the
Earth to go around the Sun once.

The time it takes for the Earth to go

completely around the Sun is
called a year.
 Each 4 years, one day is added to
the month of February to make up
for the 0.25 (1/4) rotation in
each revolution around the sun.

February 29
This is called Leap Year.
 Period of Revolution
Planets Revolution Around the Sun
Mercury 87.96 Earth days
Venus 224.68 Earth days
Earth 365.26 Earth days
Mars 686.98 Earth days
Jupiter 11.862 Earth years
Saturn 29.456 Earth years
Uranus 84.07 Earth years
Neptune 164.81 Earth years
Revolution creates seasons.
 Why does seasons occur?
Seasons occur not
because of the
distance it is from
the sun but due to
the Earth’s tilt
doesn’t change as
it orbits the sun.
• The Earth is split
Hemispheres
into 4 hemispheres.
• Depending on the
hemisphere you
live in depends on
the seasons.
• We live in the
Northern and
Western
Hemisphere.
Let’s Review
1. The Earth spinning on its axis. Rotatio Revolutio
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2. Going around a larger body. Rotatio Revolutio

Revolution
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3. 24 hours. Rotatio Revolutio

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4. Causes the Earth’s seasons. Rotatio Revolutio

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5. Creates a year. Rotatio Revolutio

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6. The moon going around Earth. Rotatio Revolutio

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