Earth’s Movement

Around the Sun

 The orbit remains an ellipse, its position or orientation in
space changes over time.

 The earth spins around on its own axis, an imaginary line

from the North Pole to the South Pole, which dips and
wobbles gradually.

 The earth could then be imagined like a spinning topor

trumpo, turning wobbling in its path about the sun.
The elements in this interaction between the sun and the earth are defined as

follows:

 Aphelion refers to the point in the orbit of the earth farthest from the sun.

 Perihelion is the point in the orbit of the earth closest to the sun.

 Earth’s axial tilt is the inclination angle of the earth’s rotational axis in relation to

a line perpendicular to its orbital plane.

 Precession is the change of the orientation of the rotational axis of the earth,
 Equinox refers to the time the sun at noon is directly over the equator. It

happens twice a year and causes an almost equal length of day and

night.

 Solstice happens when the sun at noon sits above the Tropicof Cancer or

Tropic of Capricon. The summer solstice the longest period of daylight in

the year and the winter solstice has the shortest period.

 Precission of the equinoxes refers to the motion of the equinoxes relative to

the precession of the earth’s axis of rotation. It happens over thousands of

year.