The earth moves around the sun and as it carries out this movement
the sun's rays reach the earth with a different inclination, producing
cyclic variations in the temperature of our planet which we divide into
four seasons.
As the rotational axis of the earth is inclined, the sun's rays do not
always reach the Northern and Southern Hemispheres in the same way.
In the following visual you can observe how the rotational axis of the
earth is inclined; when the North Pole is furthest from the sun, the
South Pole is nearest the sun and vice versa. When it is winter in the
Northern Hemisphere, it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere and vice
versa.
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