While you don't feel it, Earth is spinning. Once every 24 hours Earth turns — or rotates on its axis — taking all of us
with it. When we are on the side of Earth that is facing the Sun, we have daylight. As Earth continues its spin, we are
moved to the side facing away from our Sun, and we have night time.
If we were looking down on Earth from above the north
pole, we could see that Earth rotates counterclockwise, and we would watch daylight and darkness sweeping across our
globe from east to west.