why earth rotates counter clockwise?

Answer 1

This is simply a matter of perspective. From the South Pole, the earth's rotation is clockwise.

Answer 2

it rotates both ways. when looked at from space at the north pole, the earth rotates counter clockwise. when looked at from space from the south pole, it rotates clockwise. you can check this with a globe. spin the globe to the right and look at the earth from the bottom and top. it turns both clockwise and counter clockwise.

Answer 3

The planets of our solar system formed in a dense region within an immense cloud of interstellar gas and dust. The region where Earth and the other planets formed was slowly rotating, and as material was gathered in by the forming planets, each of them acquired some of that rotation. So it is that, except for Venus, all the planets of our solar system rotate in the same direction. This direction of rotation could have been opposite to what we have today if the original cloud had been rotating differently.

Answer 4

To know why earth rotates clockwise we must study how earth came into existence.

The rotaion is connected with the formation of earth.

Answer 5

that's why sun rises in the east and sets in the west. If earth rotates clockwise, then it would be just opposite..

Answer 6

Viewed from above the south pole it would rotate clockwise... it's all in your point of view...

Answer 7

our solar system revolves around the galaxy in counter clockwise.

Answer 8

That's kind of like asking why magnetic north is at the "top" of the world instead of the "bottom". It all depends on your frame of reference and on the events surrounding the formation of our planet.

Answer 9

It has to do with how our solar system was created. Look into "Accretion" and the formation of protoplanets.