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Seasons: tilt, not distance — Homework
Use Earth's axial tilt (not distance) to explain each seasons question.
- 1.What actually causes Earth's seasons?
- 2.Use perihelion and aphelion to explain why "closer to the sun means hotter" cannot explain the seasons.
- 3.If the Northern Hemisphere is having winter, what season is the Southern Hemisphere having?
- 4.Why are days longer in summer than in winter for a given hemisphere?
- 5.Explain, using the flashlight-and-paper idea, why direct sunlight heats a surface more than slanted sunlight covering the same spot.
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