about earh rotation,belong to geography ,astronomy
2006-09-20 21:48:13 · 14 answers · asked by padam mastana 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
It describes from where it starts to where it is going.
2006-09-20 21:50:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all the earth rotates towards the east. The sun rises in the east and moves towards the west. East, west, north & south have been named by our ancestors. Suppose they have given a different name instead of east, say 'maddy', then the sun would be rising from the maddy and the earth would be rotating towards the maddy.
You know the earth rotates anti-clock wise. Who decided the direction of the hands of the clock? Suppose the clock hands had been designed to rotate in the opposite direction, we would then say earth rotates clock wise.
Our forefathers have named everything and we merely go by them.
2006-09-20 22:56:24 · answer #2 · answered by jarantar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our earth is rotating & we have given the name to direction to get easy understanding. We see the sun in east when it rise up & sun set at west. Hence it is said the earth is rotating east to west & not wise versa.
2006-09-21 00:29:34 · answer #3 · answered by Narayan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people (falsely) believe that the eart rotates from east to west, because the sun rises at east and sets on west. however they don't understand that the sunrise/sunsets are the reverse effect of the earth rotation and therefor the earth rotates in the opposite direction.
2006-09-20 22:00:06 · answer #4 · answered by ilya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Earth rotates from West to East. If "it is said" that it rotates the other way, it is said by an idiot.
2006-09-21 00:15:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The naming is arbitrary. It is strictly convention that if you start facing north and turn 90 degrees to the right, that the direction you are facing is called east. And, as another responder has correctly noted, the earth actually rotates from west to east.
2006-09-20 22:15:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
must be a confusion here. the sun rises in the east, sets west so earth rotation must be opposite, rotating from west to east
2006-09-20 22:12:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of the sun as a fixed point of light in the heavens. Now, consider that New York has its sunrise (points toward the sun). Then, some 4 hours later, sunrise happens in Los Angeles. (Again, the sun is static, and is just now shining in LA.) Since LA is west of NY, the earth must be turning from east to west. Comprende?
2006-09-20 22:09:54 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. Dave 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earth is rotating from west to east only. Who says that it goes east to west. Wrong.
Thats why the sun seems to rise in east & travel to west & sets there.
2006-09-21 01:08:18 · answer #9 · answered by Ashish B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Planet Venus moves from west from east, it's sun rises from west sets in east. So the answer is; Earth born to be in this way!
2006-09-20 22:00:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thats because all the heavely bodies thet we see from earth move from east to west including the sun
2006-09-20 22:41:00 · answer #11 · answered by shriya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋