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    4. how does light hitting the earth change as we move around the sun?
    how does light hitting the earth change as we move around the sun?

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      As the earth moves around the sun in orbit, it is also rotating. As the earth rotates, areas of the earth become turned away from the sun bringing darkness to that section of the earth because the sunlight can not get to it.  



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