Temperatures+In+Different+Hemispheres

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A city's position on Earth does affect the order of the seasons. This is because the tilt of Earth's axis is different times through out the year. For example, the Earth is closest to the Sun in January. Doesn't that mean that it should be summer? No, because the Earth is tilted so that the Southern Hemisphere is facing the sun. That's why while it's summer for the Southern Hemisphere, it's winter for Northern Hemisphere. Let's look at my graph. During June and July, Las Vegas is experiencing summertime, because that's when it has the highest temperatures. But for Sydney, during June and July it is experiencing winter time, because that's when it gets its lowest temperatures. That is because Las Vegas is in the Northern Hemisphere and Sydney is in the Southern Hemisphere. The tilt of the Earth's axis is the reason for their different temperatures at the same time, and so yes, a city's position on Earth DOES affect the order of it's seasons. media type="custom" key="12481562"

Claim: The angle/tilt of the Earth affects the Earth because it affects which hemispheres get more sunlight, thus making their temperatures higher. For example, If the Earth is tilted away from the Sun, then the South Hemisphere gets more sunlight. If the Earth is tilted away from the Sun, then the Northern Hemisphere is getting more sunlight. Here's a picture I drew to explain:

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1) The Earth tilts leads to warmer temperature in the summer months because when hemispheres experience the summer, it's because they are facing the sun more than the other hemisphere, thus getting more sunlight and higher temperatures.(see image above)

2) The seasonal patterns would be the same for the whole world if the Earth did not tilt because no hemisphere would get more sunlight than other hemispheres, and so they would all have the same temperature.

3) Even though this model was pretty good, it had a LOT of disadvantages. First, let's talk about the advantages. With this model you could see that the tilt of the Earth results in the hemispheres having different temperatures than each other. This in real life is true. You can see that in my graph, and how that when the Earth was tilted away from the Sun, the temperatures were lower than when it was tilted towards the Sun. But there were also a lot of disadvantages. The sizes of the globe and the lamp were not to scale with the Earth and the Sun. The Sun is a million times bigger than the Earth, but the globe was actually a lot bigger than the lamp. Another disadvantage is the distance between the globe and the lamp. The Sun may be the closest star to the Earth, but it's still million's of miles away. The lamp was only 8 inches away from the globe. Those are some disadvantages of the whole experiment, but we still pretty much got the same big idea that the temperatures in hemispheres are different due to the Earth's tilt.