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The Earth's tilt means that the passage of the Sun through the sky moves from negative 23.5 degrees to positive 23.5 degrees. The moon does not orbit around the Earth's equator. Its orbit is inclined 5 degrees to the ecliptic.

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We are not aware that the Moon has had any influence on the axial tilt of the Earth. However, scientists now believe that the Moon was formed in the very early era of the solar system, when another planetary body perhaps as large as the present planet Mars, collided with the newly-formed Earth over 4 billion years ago. The Moon formed from the debris blown off Earth and into orbit.

Such a titanic impact might have modified the rotation of the Earth, either altering its spin or tilting it over.

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The planet's seasons are the main result of the tilt. The axis of the Earth's rotation is tilted at an angle of 23.44 degrees to the plane of the eclliptic, which is the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

(We don't really know "why". It may have been caused by an impact event very early in Earth's history, which is believed to have created the Moon.)

As a result of the Earth being tilted over as it spins and orbits the Sun, the Sun appears to move north and south over the course of the year. This causes the seasons.

Ozone loss (referred to as the hole) is also directly connected to this tilt as far as location and size. The tilt prevents the sun from hitting a small portion of this layer and without the sun, ozone can not exist. When the sun again hits the layer, the hole disappears again. Both the size and location are caused by this tilt.
Seasons, mostly. The way the earth tilts affects the amount of sun received at different places throughout the year.
The category says it all: Seasons!

Another effect: Changes in daylight hours throughout the year.

The further a planet's axis is tilted, the more dramatic the seasons are. Vice verse for less axis tilting.

For example, consider the Earth if it were 0deg. Everywhere on Earth would have 12 hours of daylight. The polar regions would be really cold all the time and the Equator would be much hotter. But, there'd be no temperature changing seasons.

Consider 90deg now: In Summer, the North Pole would get sunlight around the clock and at the Solstice, it would be directly above. Everything would melt and become very warm. In Winter, parts of the northern hemisphere would never see light at all, and become much colder. The changes in seasons would be very dramatic.
The Earth's tilt produces seasons, and the varying amounts of daylight in different seasons at latitudes away from the equator.
The Earth's tilt produces seasons, and the varying amounts of daylight in different seasons at latitudes away from the equator.
I presume you're talking about the Earth. It's because of its tilted axis that we have the various seasons.

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This may seem impossible to believe. The tidal interaction between the earth and moon has the effect of pushing the moon away from earth, by way of what is called 'tidal friction'. This is happening very slowly, but it is indeed happening.

Here are the basics. The earth is spinning rapidly compared to the lumbering month-long orbit the moon makes around the earth. The earth's oceans respond in a predictable way as the earth literally turns 'underneath' the tides. Imagine the earth spinning 'under' the high tide bulge with the moon above. The spin of the earth 'pulls' the high tide forward a little! Why wouldn't it? When you are standing in water and you drag your hand around just under the surface, the water doesn't remain still, smoothly gliding over your hand as if it wasn't there. You actually end up pushing the water along. The same thing happens to the bulge of high tide. Now, there is a LOT of water in the oceans, and water is quite dense [one cubic meter of water weighs almost exactly one ton, which surprises most people] and therefore there is a lot of mass being pushed around. This shift in water mass on earth's surface has an effect on the gravitational relationship between moon and earth; it literally drains angular momentum and rotational kinetic energy from earth, and this is transferred to the moon's motion because the shift in ocean mass produces a gravitational tug. The moon accelerates very slightly and as a result its orbit moves out a little. At the same time, the earth's spin slows very slightly. The energy that earth gives up in its constant frictional tug on the oceans is translated into an almost imperceptible push outward on the moon. The yearly increase in distance between earth and moon is about 37 or 38 mm.

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The gravity from the moon and sun work together to form different tides

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The 'earth's tilt' has no effect whatsoever on the sun.

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