Use the interactive diagram at the bottom of the page to determine the direction of the
earth’s rotation when viewed from above the North Pole. (Hint: rotate the observer – the
stickfigure – to the noontime position, then sunset position, then midnight position, and
finally back to sunrise position. The earth has made one complete rotation and the
observer has experience one daily (diurnal) cycle of day and night.)
When viewed from above the North Pole, does the earth rotate clockwise or
counter-clockwise?