What if There Were No Seasons?

What if There Were No Seasons?

What causes the seasons to change? Seasons

are caused by a 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth’s

axis during its revolution.

The tilt is a slant of the Earth’s axis, a 23.5

degrees from the axis.

The axis is the imaginary line that extends

from the North Pole to the South Pole and is

the center of the Earth’s rotation.

The Earth revolves around the sun. A

revolution is when one object moves around

another. It takes the Earth 365.25 days to

revolve around the sun.

The Earth also rotates or spins on its axis.

The rotation of the Earth causes day and night.

With the 23.5 ̊tilt, one hemisphere tilted more

towards the sun than the other. If you live in

North America, which is in the northern

hemisphere, during the summer the northern

hemisphere is tilted towards the sun and

receives more direct sunlight.

A hemisphere is half of a sphere and Earth is

divided into the northern and southern

hemisphere.

What would happen if the Earth didn’t tilt? We

wouldn’t have any seasons. It would be a

pretty different world that we live in. Our crops

wouldn’t grow correctly. If we didn’t have

crops, we couldn’t eat!

Our Earth would also get colder and colder the

further you get from the equator. We couldn’t

live in some of the locations we currently live

in. If we had to live closer to the equator, we

wouldn’t have as much space to live, and our

populations would be lower. They would have

to be!

And what would life be like closer to the

equator? It would be even hotter and more

humid than it is now. Studies have shown that

we might have more diseases because disease

thrives in warmer climates.

All life on earth would be completely different

without seasons.