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Seasons are caused by the Earth spinning on its axis, and traveling in an elliptical orbit around the Sun.

But the axis of the Earth's rotation isn't "normal to" (at a 90-degree angle to) the plane of the Earth's orbit (the "ecliptic"); the Earth's spin axis is 23.5 degrees "tipped" from being normal to the ecliptic.

Because of that, the Earth's north pole is tilted a little "away from" the Sun in the fall and winter, and a little "toward" the Sun in the spring and summer. These differences cause the seasons.

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