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Does the shape of the earth affect the seasons?
While the Earth's orbit is an ellipse rather and a perfect circle, the eccentricity is fairly low, so not much of the seasonal weather changes are due to it. Most of the seasonal changes that we see each year are due to the fact that the Earth is tilted by 23.5 degrees from our orbit. So we have summer where the Earth is tilted toward the sun, and winter where the Earth is tilted away from it.
Why do you get summer and winter?
I thank alot of years of science classes for the automatic knowledge of this fact. Well, the Earth has a definite tilt in its axis, about 23.5 degrees, and this accounts for different parts of the Earth witnessing minor climate changes. In layman's terms, sometimes Earth is tilted towards the Sun, sometimes it's tilted away.
What planet is tilted 98 degrees?
Uranus. However, one annoying fact is that Uranus's axis is tilted 98 degrees to its plane of rotation. This means that its so-called north pole is actually directed more closely to what we would call "south" in the solar system than to "north." So arguably, Uranus's rotation is opposite to the rotation of all the other planets (except for Venus), but apparently astronomers don't choose to define it that way. So instead of saying that Uranus is tilted 82 degrees and rotates backwards, they say that it is tilted 98 degrees and rotates forward
How many degrees is the earths axis tilted perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic?
Approximately 23°. As a matter of interest, the Tropics of Cancer and capricorn are 23° from the Equator, these representing the most northerly/southerly points on the Earth where the Sun can be directly overhead. This is due to that tilt of the earth.
Why does the fact that the earth is tilted affect us?
Since the Earth is tilted with respect to the plane of its orbit around the sun, the parts of the Earth away form the equator receive significantly different amounts of solar heating at different times of the year. The result is the progression of the seasons (summer, autumn, winter, spring). If the Earth were not tilted, we would not have seasons.
What caises seasonal changes on earth?
Yes. That and the the fact that the earth revolves around the sun. Those two things. If the earth was not tilted with respect to its obit, there would be no seasonal change.
What is an important factor in explaining why seasons occur on Earth Earth rotates on its axis The Sun rotates on its axis Earth's axis is tilted The Sun's axis is tilted?
The seasons are caused by the fact that the Earth's axis is tilted. As the Earth travels around the sun, the hemisphere that is tilted toward the sun changes. Whenever your hemisphere is pointed toward the sun, it is summer in your hemisphere.
WHY DOES CLIMATE DIFFER FROM PLACE TO PLACE BECAUSE OF EARTHS SHAPE?
Because of Earth's shape and the fact that it spins with a tilted axis as it orbits the Sun.
What cause autorm and spring?
The seasons in general are caused by the combination of (1) Earth's movement around the Sun, and (2) the fact that Earth's axis is tilted (is not exactly perpendicular to the plane of this movement).
The Earth's tilt on its axis causes areas of the Earth's surface to be tilted either away from the Sun or toward the Sun throughout the year What is the main impact of this?
This fact is the direct cause of the "seasons".
The revolution of the earth causes the seasons right?
No, the revolution of the Earth (its spin about an axis through the north and south poles) causes night and day. The Seasons are cause by the fact that the Earth's spin axis is tilted and by the orbit of the Earth round the Sun.
Why does the sun take longer to set in summer than in winter?
Not only that, but it rises earlier, too. The Earth is a sphere, but the axis of rotation isn't perpendicular to the plane of our orbit around the Sun. And really, why should it be? The fact is that the Earth's spin axis is tilted at about 23.5 degrees from the perpendicular to the ecliptic ("Ecliptic" is the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.) Since the Earth spins like a gyroscope, it's pretty stable; it doesn't wobble (much). So when the Earth's axis is tilted a little more toward the Sun, the days are longer and the nights are shorter. The Sun rises earlier and sets later. We call this "Spring" and "Summer". When the axis is tilted a little AWAY from the Sun, it's fall and winter; the Sun rises later and sets earlier, and we have shorter days and longer nights.
