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Season seasonal configuration of Earth and Sun
What causes the seasons?
Understand how the tilted rotation of Earth's axis gives more prominent full moon in winter than in summer
What's the problem with an early spring?
See how Earth's constant axial tilt and yearly revolution around the Sun cause seasons
sunlight strikes parts of Earth differently seasons of Mars
Understand how the trees adapt to extreme temperatures, water availability, and seasonal changes by employing various methods
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What causes the seasons?
In many parts of the world, weather cycles through the four seasons like clockwork:...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Understand how the tilted rotation of Earth's axis gives more prominent full moon in winter than in summer
Learn why a full moon is more prominent in winter than in summer.
Video: © MinutePhysics (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
What's the problem with an early spring?
Is it just me, or did spring come early this year?
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
See how Earth's constant axial tilt and yearly revolution around the Sun cause seasons
The role of Earth's orbit and axis in determining its seasons.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Understand how the trees adapt to extreme temperatures, water availability, and seasonal changes by employing various methods
Learn about the various methods trees employ to cope with extreme temperatures, water...
Video: © MinuteEarth (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Ash tree photographed throughout the four seasons, spring (top left), summer (top...
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seasonal configuration of Earth and Sun
Diagram depicting the position of Earth in relation to the Sun at the beginning of...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
sunlight strikes parts of Earth differently
The primary cause of Earth's seasons is the change in the amount of sunlight reaching...
© Merriam-Webster Inc.
seasons of Mars
The seasons of Mars, a result of the planet's inclination of 24.9° to its orbital...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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