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Seasons SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Climate change
p.60

In many parts of the world, the year has four seasons. ▸ ▸ Day and night p.77
These seasons are winter, spring, summer, and autumn. ▸ ▸ Hibernation p.129
The lives of plants and animals, the weather, and the hours ▸ ▸ Solar system

of daylight all change from one season to the next. In some p.233
hot parts of the world, there are just two seasons. ▸ ▸ Trees p.261
▸ ▸ Weather p.271

Changing seasons
In the cold winter, plants
stop growing. In spring,
they begin to grow again
and baby animals are born.
Summer sees the hottest
weather, and then
in autumn leaves
change color and
fall off the trees.

Winter Spring Summer Autumn
What causes March December
the seasons? This part of the Earth
The Earth travels around tilts away from the
the sun. It is tilted so some sun and has its winter.
parts of it get stronger
sunlight than other parts. Sun
As it moves, the amount
of sunlight reaching
different parts of the Monsoons
Earth changes. This This part of the Earth
tilts toward the sun
gives us our seasons. and has its summer. Tropical parts of the Earth are warm
September all year round. There are often just
two seasons—a dry season and a
Axis June rainy season, called a monsoon.

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