Diagram Of The Sun And Earth. Figure 1 below shows that the orbit of the earth about the sun is not circular. Students will cut and glue characteristics into the three way venn diagram.
Challenge students to sort the characteristics of the sun earth and moon using a venn diagram. Figure 1 below shows that the orbit of the earth about the sun is not circular. The earth revolves around the sun once each year and spins on its axis of rotation once each day.
The axis of rotation is pointed toward polaris the north star.
Two special events are depicted in the diagram. The path is elongated or ellipitcal. Two special events are depicted in the diagram. A diagram of the earth sun relationship notice that the earth s tilt is always directed towards one place in space in this model it is towards the left.