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With an aid of a diagram discuss the Revolution of the Earth.

With an aid of a diagram discuss the Revolution of the Earth.

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Martin
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It’s in anticlockwise direction.

- The orbit of the earth’s revolution is elliptical.
- Takes 365 ¼ days in a year or 366 days in a leap year (every 4 years).
- The sun moves from the tropic of cancer to the equator and then towards tropic of Capricorn and back to the tropic of cancer

21st march and 23rd September are called equinoxes because the length of day and night is equal. The sun is vertically overhead at noon at the equator.
- 21st June is called summer solstice because its summer in the N hemisphere. The sun is vertically overhead at noon at the tropic of cancer.
- 22nd December is called winter solstice because its winter in the S. hemisphere. The sun is vertically overhead at noon at noon at the tropic of Capricorn.
- Solstice is the period of maximum tilting of the earth towards the sun.

marto answered the question on March 22, 2019 at 06:38

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