Orbital Characteristics of the Earth; seasons

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

- Bertrand Russell


Concepts:
Earths tilt
arctic circle
antarctic circle
tropics of cancer, capricorn
Why do we have seasons
Winter and Sumemr Solstices
Fall and Spring Equinoxes
Coriolis Effect
clockwise deflection in northern hemispere
counterclockwise deflection in the southern hemisphere




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