Days, months, years and seasons. Why do we have day and night? Why are the days longer in the summer and shorter in the winter here in the northern hemisphere? And why do we have seasons? Well, the answer has to have something to do with the sun, which is here, and the Earth, represented by this orange.
The answer lies in the way that the Earth spins on its axis – it goes round on its axis once a day. And the way that it orbits around the sun – it goes round the sun once a year. But the Earth is tilted – so, its spin axis is tilted, actually at an angle of around 23 degrees to the horizontal.
That means that – let’s say this is northern hemisphere summer, so there’s the North Pole – we’re going to spin on our axis, but you see that the North Pole always gets sunlight, 24 hours a day. And if this is us, you see that this would be night, in the shadows, and the sun would rise about there, and the sun would be up, and sun would be up, and the sun would be up, and it’d be up, and it’d be up… and it would set around there. So in the summer, when the North Pole is pointing towards the sun, we get very short nights and very long days.
Then, let’s go around six months, so the Earth goes halfway around the sun in its orbit. Now, the North Pole, which is here, is always pointing away from the sun. So, as the Earth spins, the sun never rises. It never shines on the North Pole.
Now we are there. And so, you see that we spend a very short amount of time in the daylight, lots of time in the shadows in the night, and not very long in the day.
So, in the winter, which is what this represents, the North Pole gets no sun at all. We get short days, a little bit of sunlight, and very long nights.
This, quarter way around again, would be the spring, back to the summer, the autumn and the winter.
So, the seasons occur because the Earth’s axis is tilted and it goes around the sun – winter in the north, summer in the north.
And the days, because the Earth spins on its axis. It goes around once every, roughly 24 hours.
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