The amount of heat energy received at any location on the globe is a direct effect of Sun angle on climate. The angle of sunlight strikes the Earth in various locations, at different times of day, causing different weather patterns around the Earth which contributes to our climate. As the Earth orbits around the Sun, these weather patterns contribute to winter, spring, summer and fall. You might say, WAIT? I thought seasons were because the Earth is orbiting around the Sun? No, not true. We have seasons because the Earth is tilted and the angle of the Sun's rays hit the Earth at different angles....OH! You've heard this before! Then you understand the seasons are caused as the Earth, tilted on its axis, travels in a loop around the Sun each year. Summer happens in the hemisphere tilted towards the Sun, and winter happens in the hemisphere tilted away from the Sun. You might ask, well, how do the seasons work if the Earth is rotating? The seasons are, of course, reversed for the southern hemisphere. The winter and summer solstices mark the two dates during the year on which the Earth's position in its orbit is such that its axis of rotation is most tilted toward or away from the Sun. The Earth continues to rotate 24-7, everyday, every week, every month, every year....so rotation isn't the real reason for the seasons...its the tilt, again, and the angle of the Sun's rays. As the Earth travels around the Sun over the course of a year and the tilt of its axis points your hemisphere toward or away from the Sun, you experience the changing of the seasons. See? It's always about the tilt and angle of the Sun's rays! If the Earth weren't tilted on its axis, there would be no seasons. And humanity would suffer. How would we suffer? Well...take away the Earth's axial slant, and the place might become a lot less inviting. With a tilt of less than five degrees or so, the Earth's equator would bear the full brunt of a sun's radiance. The polar regions would also receive far less sunlight than they do. The result: extreme temperatures would be at the poles and the equator. The equator would be extremely hot while the poles would be completely frozen. Bands of populations in temperate, mid-latitude zones could still live. The worst-case scenario, would be that the entire atmosphere of a non-tilted Earth would disappear. Gases might evaporate into space around the planet's blazing middle and freeze to the ground in the bleak north and south. Some life as we know it would become completely extinct. The real reason for the seasons? It's all in the tilt and the angle of the Sun's rays. But you already knew that didn't you....
24 Comments
Allysa B
10/3/2017 03:15:38 pm
Haha hilarious Mrs.Taylor. I was frustrated all day because we couldn't go on our field trip. STUPID BUSES!!!!
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mackinna
10/3/2017 03:30:52 pm
yeah me to I was so frustrated :-)
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Errol
10/3/2017 04:05:45 pm
I so agree i also protested yesterday! GRHHH
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kinna
10/3/2017 03:29:27 pm
Man this website always makes me feel better
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addyson
10/3/2017 03:38:40 pm
i always love the vids and i love the one that shows the one "thank goodness'
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Ryley W
10/3/2017 03:47:48 pm
And humanity would suffer.
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Loa
10/3/2017 03:57:17 pm
Will we have another field trip coming up? If yes I would be very happy. anyway lets put that to the side, I am amazed by the funny pics. Thank you Mrs. Taylor.
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Errol
10/3/2017 04:04:57 pm
I like all of the funny pictures that you put up and work so hard on.
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grace/ elephant
10/4/2017 07:18:13 am
wow Errol, just wow. Why do you write such big paragraphs? maybe I should try it. I tottaly would have fallen for that thing about how if were closer to the sun its summer and farther away its winter. Actualy, I did believe that before Mrs Taylor taught me it was allin the rotation and the tilt. thanks for that Mrs Taylor. and Errol, what's with the lamas. I didn't get to read the whole thing. So, also thanks to mrs Taylor I have something funny to read during Chinese. thanks Mrs Taylor and bye!
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Snoop Dogg
10/3/2017 04:11:30 pm
SNOOP
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caleb
10/3/2017 04:15:04 pm
ok were are you geting all this picser
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Elayna
10/3/2017 04:19:00 pm
Well... I only knew that because you taught it to us this week and last. But I still learn from it!
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Ben
10/3/2017 04:32:31 pm
I have absolutely nothing to comment about except that I just watched the giver
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Alyssa Thunell
10/3/2017 05:09:21 pm
Thanks Mrs.Taylor for working so hard to put this together. I
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KENNEDY
10/3/2017 06:27:47 pm
WHO IS SNOOP DOGG
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quinn
10/3/2017 07:26:33 pm
Nice job on the blog Mrs. Taylor. love the pictures. plus who is Snoop Dog?
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jude
10/3/2017 07:44:14 pm
snoop dogg is my brother
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grace/elephant
10/3/2017 07:46:21 pm
Cool, I have no idea what half of who those people are in the pictures. But I did read it to.
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Sadie
10/3/2017 08:15:46 pm
Thank you so much for the blog Mrs. Taylor, I love to read it and it always makes me smile! But I was a little sad to hear that our field trip got canceled.
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probably Luke
10/3/2017 08:57:10 pm
I loved the pictures!!
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MaryGrace
10/3/2017 09:21:16 pm
My friend accedentally said my name sounded deadly instead of lovely... WUTS DAT SUPPOST TO MEAN!!??!!😂😳
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gandalf
10/3/2017 09:28:11 pm
the only happy thin today is the blog.
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lill
10/3/2017 11:27:27 pm
Thank you Mrs.Taylor for their post today! All the information you give is SUPER helpful. It's so sad to think about MANY species would go extinct if our axis wasn't tilted. Guys, maybe, and just maybe, we should start commenting about what is actually INSIDE the text instead of just saying how much we like the "funny pics." Now I am not trying to offense anyone in any possible way at all, and I personally love the pictures too, I think that they are adorable, but I think that just saying how much we like the pictures doesn't mean that we read any words anywhere at all. (Wow that was all spoken in really broad terms.) I think that we should say stuff like, "I think it is so cool that if we didn't have that 23.5 tilt in our axis, then we would all have to move to earths equator because the other places would be to cold for humans to live" or something. I probably sound like I am trying to boss people around or control what everyone is talking about but I PROMISE you with ALL of my heart that I am not. I just think that if Mrs.Talor is going to spend HER money on candy and treats, then we should make the candy worth buying for. So there is just another suggestion for some ways we can comment. Thanks!
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Errol
10/4/2017 07:49:08 am
Oh my goodness Lily and i thought that i was writing very long comments you just really take the paragraph thing up a notch!!!! But I do agree with you that we should probably note a little bit more about science than pictures(honestly I think they are awesome). And Grace the llamas thing was weird some person started to just say llamas and then the rest of the people started to just comment with that one word. Thank you Mrs Taylor for letting us use this blog to study!!!! I honestly commented three times on this blog so I think I use this a lot to reference things!!!!
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