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Orbit answer

Neither the Sun or Earth move?

This is wrong. If neither moved around the other then the Sun would shine on the same part of the Earth all the time, and the rest of the globe would be in permanent darkness. This cannot be the right answer.

The correct answer is the Earth moves around the Sun. We call this movement the Earth's orbit. It takes the Earth 365 days, or one year, to orbit the Sun.

 Earth's orbit

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