The Spinning World
Did you ever think you could spin around and around without getting dizzy? Well, that’s what happens to you every day and every night. The earth is spinning around like a huge top, and you’re along for the ride!
Both the earth and a top spin around an axis, like a wheel spins around its axle. See for yourself. Push a stick through a ball of clay. Twirl the stick, and the ball will spin around.
Now imagine a pole going through the centre of the earth. That imaginary pole is called the earth’s axis. One end of the earth’s axis is called the North Pole. The other end is called the South Pole. The earth spins around its axis, like a wheel spins around its axle.
People can’t feel the earth turn because it is so big. But we know it does turn because that’s what gives us our day and night. In the morning, when the sky is bright, we know that our part of the earth is turned towards the sun. At night, when the sky is dark, we know that we’ve turned away from the sun.
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