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The Earth's axis is tilted by about 23°. So as we orbit the sun, at times part of the Earth is tilted towards to sun, which is when those parts of the world experience summer, and parts of the world are tilted away from it, which is when we have winter. In spring and autumn, the Earth is tilting, but doing so parallel to the sun, so no part is significantly closer. The tilt of the Earth causes its seasons. If you imagine standing at the North Pole, not only would you be very cold, but you could almost certainly look one way and spin around very fast and it would be always be day or night depending on which side you chose to look. Now imagine the world is tilting as well. The North Pole would either be constantly pointing at the sun or away and it wouldn't be yourchoice. This gets less extreme as you go nearer the equator.

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