The sun CONTRIBUTES to the seasons here on earth, but the sun doesn't vary much in the amount of light it sheds on earth.
What changes is the number of hours the sun is shining and how high it is in the sky -- and those situations are created by the axis of rotation of the earth, which is at a 23 1/2 degree tilt from the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. So we get less light in the winter, more in the summer and about equal amounts of light in spring and fall --those are the seasons. If the earth rotated upon an axis perpendicular to the plane in which the earth rotates around the sun, there were be no seasons.
the moon helps create tides because the moon is large and fairly close to the earth, so it's gravity pulls on the earth. The effect of the moon's gravitiy is greatest on the oceans, which are "sucked" toward the moon with its gravity, and this attraction can be noticed here on earth by the tides. To a lesser extent, the sun also affects tides.
2006-07-24 13:23:55
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answered by urbancoyote 7
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Tides are caused by the gravitational interaction between the earth and the moon. The sun doesn't so much cause the seasons as they are caused by the distance from the earth to the sun and how the earth is tilted on its axis. You know, of course, that the northern and southern hemispheres have opposite seasons--like, right now it's winter in Australia, for example. This depends on which hemisphere is tilted toward the sun.
2006-07-24 13:20:46
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answered by Anonymous
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it is not lots as a metamorphosis in the axial tilt of the Earth that reasons the seasons. The axial tilt continues to be at 23.5 tiers no rely what. it particularly is the component that the Earth provides in the direction of the sunlight, as its place relative to the sunlight differences throughout its orbit and the substitute in the inclination of its orbit to the sunlight ensue. That, blended with the axial tilt and the three% substitute in the gap the Earth is from the sunlight between the solstices, produces the seasons. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, over very long classes of time.....many hundreds of years....a precise substitute in the axial tilt (obliquity), blended with substitute in the form of the Earth's orbit (eccentricity) and different aspects, does reason seasonal and climate substitute. How does it help the Moon create tides??. The sunlight additionally has a gravitational pull result on earth, as a results of fact the Moon does. the version is the tides produced via the sunlight are a million/3 of what the Moon produces.
2016-11-02 22:29:54
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answered by ? 4
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Tides are caused by the gravitational friction of the moon upon the Earth. Seasons are cased by the earth's relatively small wobble from and to the sun as it orbits the sun.
Dan.
2006-07-24 13:22:10
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answered by Dan S 6
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The gravitational pull between the moon and the earth are the primary causes of the tides.
2006-07-24 13:18:54
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answered by Anonymous
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it's not the sun, it's the tilt of th earth that makes the seasons. read up on that... and the moon influences the tide by it's gravity.
2006-07-24 13:20:35
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answered by Michael S 4
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The sun creates seasons becuase our orbit around the sunner positions us farther from the sunner during certain parts of the year. During winter, we are farther from the sun, and the Southern Hemisphere is facing it more directly.
Winds from the Moon cause the tidal waves... I think,. at least. Hope this helps.
2006-07-24 13:20:17
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answered by N/A 3
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magic
2006-07-24 13:20:56
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answered by Molly 3
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will your life be better if you know these things ?
2006-07-24 13:19:06
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answered by el.tuco 5
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