What Causes Seasons?

We know that the reason we have day and night is

because the Earth rotates.

Rotate means
to turn.

The Earth rotating on its

______
axis
gives us day and night.

Earths axis is
the imaginary line that goes through the
center of the Earth.
But guess what! Rotating isnt the only way the
Earth moves in space!
The Earth also revolves.

Revolve When one object moves around another

object
How long does one revolution take?
It takes the Earth one year, or 365
days to orbit the sun.

Does anyone know

what orbit means?

Orbit -
The path that an object
follows as it revolves
around another object.
All over the world, people experience the four
seasons.
Winter
Spring
Summer
and fall.
But why do we have four seasons?

Its because the Earths

axis is tilted.
Take a good look at
our globe. Its not
tilted like that because
it looks nice. No way.
Thats the way the
Earth is tilted in space.

That tilt gives us seasons!

Look at this diagram. Notice how the Earth is
always tilted in the same direction. As the
revolves the part of Earth tilted
Earth __________
toward the sun changes.
During part of the year the North Pole tilts
summer
towards the sun. This season is ________.
During another part of the year, the North Pole
winter
points away from the sun. This season is ______.
When the North Pole is
tilted toward the Sun, the
Sun travels higher
overhead in the sky. The
Suns rays shine
straighter down on that
part of the Earth. It is Its like pointing a
summer in that part of flashlight at a piece
the Earth. of paper. When you
hold the flashlight
straight above the
paper, the rays from
the flashlight shine
down straighter.
When the North Pole is
tilted away from the Sun,
the Sun stays lower in
the sky. It is then winter
in that part of the Earth.

If you point your flashlight

at a piece of paper at an
angle, the rays from the
flashlight spread out.