Mariflor Medina Professor: Steve Hall Annotated Bibliography 11/11/2013

Why there are Four Seasons? Earth's four seasons are caused by the planet's tilt of its axis. Facts about this and why the different hemispheres' seasons are opposite each other. We all know that Earth has 4 seasons, but do we know what creates them? Well the reason for seasons is the 23.5-degree tilt of the earth and its orbit around the sun. First off, the earth travels in an oval around the sun, that's the path the earth takes to orbit the sun. The earth is actually closer to the sun in December than January because of the orbit. It may seem that it's hotter in June and that means that the earth is closer to the sun but to tell you the truth it's completely opposite of that. The Northern and Southern Hemisphere will never have the same seasons. They will always be 2 seasons apart from each other. On December 21 the Northern Hemisphere experiences the shortest period of daylight and on June 21 they experience the longest period of daylight. It works opposite for the Southern Hemisphere, the shortest day is June 21, and longest is December 21. I believe, after this step of the process fall comes in the Southern Hemisphere and spring in the Northern Hemisphere. I hope the audience knows and how and why the earth has seasons.

However, season is a subdivision of the year, marked by changes in weather, ecology, and hours of daylight. Seasons result from the yearly revolution of the Earth around the Sun and the tilt of the Earth's axis relative to the plane of revolution In temperature and polar regions, the seasons are marked by changes in the intensity of sunlight that reaches the Earth's surface, variations of which may cause animals to go into hibernation or to migrate, and plants to be dormant.

During May, June and July, the northern hemisphere is exposed to more direct sunlight because the hemisphere faces the sun. The same is true of the southern hemisphere in November, December and January. Hot regions have two or three seasons; the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season and the dry season, and in some tropical areas, a cool or mild season. In temperate and sub polar regions, generally four calendar-based seasons (with their adjectives) are recognized: spring (vernal), summer (estival), autumn (autumnal) and winter (hibernal). However, ecologists mostly use a six season model for temperate climate regions that includes pre-spring (prevernal) and late summer (serotinal) as distinct seasons along with the traditional four Thats why in some parts of the world, special seasons are loosely defined based on important events such as a hurricane season, tornado season or a wildfire season also, the actual dates for each season vary by climate region and can shift from one year to the next. Average dates listed here are for mild and cool temperate climate zones in the Northern Hemisphere.

Sometimes children ask us questions; while they may seem very obvious and simple, do not always know how to answer them clearly. Why are four seasons? Is an interesting question, usually children do, as the cycle of the seasons is really important to know how our planet, which is why we help you answer it today.

In general, many believe that the four seasons are due to the distance between Earth and the Sun, when the first turns on its orbit. However, this is not entirely true, in fact, the seasons are caused by the tilt of Earth's axis, which is 23.5 degrees. We should note that Earth - translational motions are made around the sun in an elliptical orbit - and - rotation on its axis. As the Earth revolves around the Sun, and while its axis is tilted, the light of the sun reaches the earth in different degrees and so we have different stations around the world.

Obviously, I agree everything about this universe is a matter of cause and effect. There are a lot of other factors that go into the climate, like where the water is in relation to the land, where the winds blow, how the currents move, even how much light and heat the land absorbs. But in general the temperature swings from hottest to coldest and back, and the rest of life adapts to that. In other words: no, there isn't any near miss of anything. It's plain orbital dynamics.

According to the article by America Valenzuela at the North Pole to the minimum temperature recorded is -70 degrees Celsius. If this is already creepy, wait until you read the South Pole to fall from the chair: -89.6 degrees Celsius. Was recorded July 21, 1983 at the Russian Vostok Station at an altitude of 3400 meters. The South Pole is colder than the North and the reason is simple: the North Pole is overwhelmingly a sea ice (Arctic Ocean) and the South Pole is a frozen continent (Antarctica). Water absorbs 95% of the solar radiation and reflects only 5%. For its part, the earth reflects up to 35% of radiation. That is, the oceans absorb more heat than the continents and thus are harder to reach low temperatures. In short, the South Pole has every geographic to be the coldest place on Earth. To top it off, in the southern winter, the Southern Ocean freezes almost entirely, doubling the size of the Antarctic, and reflecting 80% of the radiation reaching. and besides, this radiation heats less, because it comes with a slope much greater than at the North Pole because "when it is winter in the south, the Earth is farther from the Sun than when it is winter in the North Pole and them has influence at the climates change on the earth.

From childhood we know that during the year we have to adapt to different temperatures and weather conditions. In summer, we felt very hot and go to the beach or cooler places. In winter it rains a lot and we feel cold, we must take shelter. Everything is better in spring and autumn we prepare for the cold. This naturally we live in, but we know that those four climatic periods are developed according to the solar year. Thus, the existence of spring, summer, autumn and winter is caused by the position of the Earth relative to the Sun, as the Earth moves (moves) from one place to another around the sun an ellipse. This translational movement is performed every 365 days and 6 hours. Therefore, because our official year is only 365 days complete, every four years include an extra day (February 29) in so-called leap years, to cover the nearly 24 hours that have accumulated in that time period But there is one detail. Stations, of course, are based on the translational motion of the Earth, but NOT in the greater or less distance there from our planet to the Sun, if so, would not explain how it is that, when in the hemisphere northern (boreal) is winter in the south (southern) is summer, and vice versa. Nor will understand why when the Earth is closest to the Sun (perihelion) it is winter in the northern hemisphere and, when further away (aphelion), it is summer in the same. I believe and according to my question, the temperature depends on several factors, one of which, as we saw, is the greater or lesser distance from the sun, another is the inclination of its axis of rotation that affects the inclination of the sun's rays reach the earth, making hemispheres that receive different amounts of heat.

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