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Earth Synthesis Essay

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Earth has four seasons but they do not all occur at the same time everywhere. The reasoning behind this is not too difficult. It takes a complete twenty-four hours (one day) for the earth to make one turn/rotate on axis and three hundred and sixty-five days (one year) to complete an entire orbit around the sun. While doing this though, the earth is tilted at a 23.5-degree angle, following an elliptical path. The sun is not centered in the middle of the path though. The earth and sun are closest when it's January. Most would think that this suggests it would be most humid in January then. Well, the tilt of the earth causes the northern hemisphere to face away from the sun and the southern hemisphere to face towards the sun, giving the Southern

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