It is due to the fact that the Earth's axis from which it rotates is tilted. The incomming sunlight hits the planet at different angles depending on what part of the planet you are on, causing different variations of temperature. Over the course of a year, the axis faces the sun in different directions, thus changing the angle of sunlight, and thus changing the temperature at any given point on the planet's surface.
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And seasons?! like winter summer fall? What do you expect the answers to be?
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Kaebora wrote:It is due to the fact that the Earth's axis from which it rotates is tilted. The incomming sunlight hits the planet at different angles depending on what part of the planet you are on, causing different variations of temperature. Over the course of a year, the axis faces the sun in different directions, thus changing the angle of sunlight, and thus changing the temperature at any given point on the planet's surface.
Additionally if I remember the orbit of the earth around the sun is eliptical.. like an oval shape so durring the summer seasons of the north and south it's closest to the sun as apposed to the winter times.. I think.. I might have had my brains scrambled one too many times.. by then and now.. o.o
tyger wrote:Additionally if I remember the orbit of the earth around the sun is eliptical.. like an oval shape so durring the summer seasons of the north and south it's closest to the sun as apposed to the winter times.. I think.. I might have had my brains scrambled one too many times.. by then and now.. o.o
Oh yes, quite right. I forgot about that. You're good at recalling science.
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tyger wrote:Additionally if I remember the orbit of the earth around the sun is eliptical.. like an oval shape so durring the summer seasons of the north and south it's closest to the sun as apposed to the winter times.. I think.. I might have had my brains scrambled one too many times.. by then and now.. o.o
Oh yes, quite right. I forgot about that. You're good at recalling science.
No, no... I don't think that's how it works. True, the orbit is elliptical, but it doesn't effect which season is going on where, which is why the southern and northern hemispheres have opposite seasons from each other. (Don't use that, OP, I'm under 20)
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And seasons?! like winter summer fall? What do you expect the answers to be?
pretty much what Kaebora said.
This (supposedly) [sp?] is to illusturate many of the incorrect ideas that people have. (though I doubt there will be many of those on this forumn. People here are MUCH sharper than tacks )
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There are no seasons. The wether is always the same, and the changes only occour in our heads. So, when I'm outside, breaking my back shoveling snow, it's really just a mass induced psychosis beamed into my noggin.
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