Answer the following questions:
1. What do you know about the Earth's axis?
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Earth also rotates on an axis point. An axis is an imaginary line an object turns around. This imaginary line runs directly through the object's center, from the north to the south poles. Although we can't feel the Earth spinning, it makes one complete turn, each day, around its own axis.
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Explanation:
An axis is an invisible line around which an object rotates, or spins. The points where an axis intersects with an object's surface are the object's North and South Poles. Earth's axis is not perpendicular. It has an axial tilt, or obliquity. Axial tilt is the angle between the planet's rotational axis and its orbital axis. A planet's orbital axis is perpendicular to to the ecliptic or orbital plane, the thin disk surrounding the sun and extending to the edge of the solar system.
Earth's axial tilt (also known as the obliquity of the ecliptic) is about 23.5 degrees. Due to this axial tilt, the sun shines on different latitudes at different angles throughout the year. This causes the seasons.