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Why do we experience seasons? Does it have something to do with Earth's distance from the Sun? Why is it warmer in the Summer

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This solution is a concise explanation of why we experience seasons, it also explains if it has something to do with the Earth's distance from the sun, and why it is warmer at summer in any given hemisphere.

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We experience season's because
1. the Earth revolves about the sun, and
2. the Earth's axis is tilted with respect to the plane of its revolution about the sun (by about 23.5 degrees).

Yes, it also has something to do with th Earth's distance from the sun, but this effect is ...

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