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Earth in Space... (Earth is tilted 23.5 degrees (Solstices- Two long sides…

- - - - The Romans borrowed the Egyptian calendar of 365 days. But in fact, Earth orbit the sun in about 365 1/4 days. This is why we have leap year, so we have 366 days.
- - - - Could predict when is was going to flood using astronomy
- - - - Fall
        
        Winter
- - - - Revolution- Following a path in space around another object.
        
        Rotation.
        
        The imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and the North and South poles in Earth's axis. The spinning of Earth on it's axis is called rotation.
        
        Earth's rotation causes day and night
        
        As Earth rotates eastward, the sun appears to move westward across the sky. It takes Earth about 24 hours to rotate once.
        
        Revolution
        
        In addition to rotating on its axis. Earth travels around the sun. Revolution is the movement of one object around another. One complete revolution of Earth around the sun is called a year. Earth follows a path, or orbit.
- - - - In winter we are tipped away from the sun.