A spinning Earth, sunrise times and shadows

We cannot feel it, but Earth is always moving in two ways. First, it spins like a top around its axis, an imaginary line through the North and South Poles. One full spin, called a rotation, takes about 24 hours, which is one day. Second, Earth travels around the Sun in a path called an orbit. One full trip, called a revolution, takes about a year. The Sun lights only half of the Earth at a time. The half facing the Sun has day, and the half facing away has night. As Earth rotates, a place on the surface turns into the sunlight and then out of it. That is why we have day and night in a regular cycle. The Sun, Moon and stars seem to rise in the east and set in the west, because Earth spins toward the east.