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It is the 23.45-degree tilt of the planet's rotational axis that causes us to have winter and summer.

Half the year, the northern half points a bit towards the sun, and half the year the southern half points a bit towards the sun.

The parts that points away get less sunlight and has winter, and the part that points towards gets more light and has summer.

And the further away from the equator and the closer you get to the poles, the more pronounced the difference between summer and winter becomes. At the equator, it doesn't matter much.

Northern Hemisphere is currently experiencing winter, and the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing summer.

  • The Southern Hemisphere is getting about three times as much sunlight as the Northern Hemisphere.
  • The North Pole is getting zero sunlight, which is why it experiences 24 hours of darkness in January.

That huge difference in the amount of sunlight reaching the ground in the different hemispheres is what causes the seasons.

Unlike the common misconception that the Earth's seasons are made up by the distance from the Sun, the seasons are made up from the tilt of the Earth's axis. If you live in the Northern hemisphere, Summer happens when the Earth's axis is tilted towards the Sun, or when the Sun's most direct rays are hitting us. In the Winter, the Earth's axis is pointed away from the sun, or the Earth's most direct rays are hitting the Southern Hemisphere instead. That is why the seasons in the Southern Hemisphere are opposite from the Northern Hemisphere.

The seasons (spring, summer, autumn and winter) are a result of two things: 1. The annual orbit of the earth round the Sun. 2. The tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation: 23o from the vertical with respect to the plane of the orbit. The seasons (spring, summer, autumn and winter) are a result of two things: 1. The annual orbit of the earth round the Sun. 2. The tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation: 23o from the vertical with respect to the plane of the orbit.

because of the tilt of the earth (the axis) when the earth revolved around the sun, one side of the earth will be tilted more toward or away from the sun as the other side. these sides are know as Hemispheres. so while the northern hemisphere is having summer, the southern is experiencing winter.

we experience seasons because of the earth's orbit (the path it travel's around the sun), and the tilt of the earth's axis ( at 23.5 degrees)

Seasons are the result of the earth's yearly revolution around the sun. Since the earth's axis is tilted, as it revolves, different areas of the earth are closer/farther to the sun throughout the year.

The orbit of the Earth around the Sun, combined with a tilt of the Earth's axis relative to its orbital plane. During the year, as the Earth revolves around the Sun, the length of the day and the angle of sunlight changes. When the Sun's rays are at a greater angle and for fewer hours, it is colder (winter). When the rays are more directly vertical (and for longer hours), it is warmer, which is summer.

The hemisphere tilted toward the Sun (northern or southern) will be experiencing summer while the other is experiencing winter. Six months later, the seasons are the reverse.

The cause of seasons is the tilt in the Earth's axis.

As the Earth revolves around the sun, the north pole points to a fixed point in space. In the northern hemisphere at the winter solstice it points away from the sun, and at the summer solstice it points toward the sun. Thus more daylight (and closer to vertical) in summer - and less in winter. It is the difference in daylight hours that accounts for the seasons.

In the southern hemisphere it is the relative pointing of the south pole: at the winter solstice the south pole points away from the sun (as the north pole points towards it) and at the summer solstice the south pole points towards the sun (as the north pole points away from it); the southern hemisphere is 6 months out relative to the northern hemisphere.
We have seasons because the earth tilts in diffrent ways from the sun .

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