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Earth and the Sun

Earth spins, or cyclerotatessatelliteshoursSelect your answer, on its axis. An axis is an imaginary linecycleequatorsphereSelect your answer through Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole. It takes Earth approximately 24 hoursrotatesflattenedsatellitesSelect your answer to make one rotation on its axis. Because of this motion, any place on Earth experiences a(n) FoucaultlinecyclesphereSelect your answer of day and night. We know Earth is spinning because of data collected by hourssatellitespendulumflattenedSelect your answer. A Frenchman named FoucaultlinespherependulumSelect your answer also discovered evidence of Earth spinning. He hung a heavy pendulumlinespheresatellitesSelect your answer that knocked down many pegs. Earth’s shape is not really a(n) cyclesphereequatorlineSelect your answer. At the North and South Poles, Earth is slightly rotatesflattenedcyclependulumSelect your answer. And at the hoursequatorspherelineSelect your answer, Earth bulges slightly.