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Home > Solar System =Why Does The Sun Rise In The East And Set In The West? By Jordan, Mary, Ada, Ethan= It looks like the sun is rising and setting because of the earth. The earth is turning on its axis which makes it look like the sun is moving but really it is staying in one place. Here is a moving picture simulation @https://www.khanacademy.org/science/cosmology-and-astronomy/earth-history-topic/earth-title-topic/p/season-simulator

=Why East And West Not North And South?= Some people would ask why East and why West not North and South? Why doesn't it rise in the North and set in the West? It's because the Earth turns on its axis. It turns counterclockwise. The earth is always turning towards the east. It does pass west to. At the times where the earth is in the east it looks like the sun is rising and when the earth is in the west it looks like the sun is setting. Here is a [|quiz].