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When Earth was young, In June, Earth’s
it was knocked off-kilter by North Pole is tilted
a large object. Instead of toward the sun,
rotating with a straight axis, giving the land
it now spins on an axis tilted there continual
at 23.5°. As Earth orbits the sunshine, with the
sun, it always tilts the same sun never sinking
way. When the North Pole below the horizon.
is tilted toward the sun,
the Northern Hemisphere
is heated more and it is
summer. At the same time
the South Pole tilts away
from the sun, making the
Southern Hemisphere
cool in winter.
It is warm
TRUE or
FALSE?
in summer
because Earth’s
orbit is closest
to the sun
It’s time to see the light if you believe this! When
it is summer one side of our planet, it is winter on
the other. Earth is actually farthest from the sun
during North America’s summer. The changing
seasons are a result of the tilt in Earth’s axis.
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