Days, Nights & Seasons Review :

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1. The Earth's ROTATIONcreates patterns of light and dark, resulting in day and night.

2. When you are on the sunny side of the Earth, it is DAY.

3. Earth's rotation isn't straightforward; it is TILTED at an angle of 23.5 degrees.

4. The tilt of Earth's axis, combined with its REVOLUTION around the sun, is responsible for the seasons.

5. When the northern half of the world is tilted toward the sun, it experiences WARMER temperatures and more hours of daylight.

6. The Earth takes 365 rotations around the sun to complete one revolution, which we call a YEAR.

7. The tilt of Earth's axis causes the northern and southern hemispheres to experience opposite SEASONSduring its orbit around the sun.

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