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pepyto

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Explain why it is cold in the Northern Hemisphere when the Earth is closest to the Sun.
 
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What are the characteristics of the earth's orbit around the Sun and Earth's rotation on its axis?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 14, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: The orientation of the hemisphere with regard to the Sun is the main cause of the seasons, not the varying Earth-Sun distance

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Answer: Earth orbits the Sun once every 36514 days as if it were riding along a flat plane. This is called revolution. In addition to its revolution, Earth also undergoes a spinning motion called rotation. Rotation occurs every 24 hours (23 hours and 56 minutes, to be exact) around an imaginary line, called Earth's axis, connecting the North and South Poles. The axis is not perpendicular to the plane of the orbit of Earth around the Sun but is tilted 23.5 from it.


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Wow, this really help

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