How does the sun determine the climate around the world?

Question

i WANT THE BEST DETAILS IN THE WORLD LIKE FOR A 5TH GRADER!!!!!!

Answer 1

Electromagnetic fields don't cause the earth to wobble. The earth processes like a top and wobbles. As the earth processes the northern and souther hemispheres get different amounts of heat. This drives the weather. This motion of the earth is due to angular momentum from left over from its formation and the procession probably results from collisions with large objects, including the one that formed our moon. To a much smaller extent, some of the wabble is probably due to plate techtonics. The moon, by the way, acts to stabilize the wabble of the earth.

Answer 2

The sun's temperature does not change by much, and neither does its distance from the earth. Climate is determined mostly by the angle of the sun's rays when they get to the earth. Because the earth is tilted by 23 1/2 degrees in its orbit, at different times of year the sun will shine straight down on different parts of the world, warming it more than at other times.

I just read the first person's answer, and he is very confused. Electromagnetic fields are *not* what make the earth "wobble." The earth spins like a top, and you will notice that while they are spinning tops will also rotate slowly in a circle. This is called precession, and the earth does it too - only it takes 25,800 years to make one circle! The only effect of this is to make the seasons very gradually move through the calendar. 13,000 years from now winter in the northern hemisphere will begin in June, for example.

Answer 3

5TH grader answer.

The earth in tilted.

In the summer....

The earth southern part is facing more toward the sun. So the suns heat rays go directly through the atmosphere heating us up.

In the winter...

The southern part is tilted away from the sun. Lots of the suns heat rays bounce off the atmosphere.

FYI... When it summer in America it's winter in Australia. :)

Answer 4

Well we are so fragile that the tilt of the earth in relationship to the sun causes winter and summer to alternate between the north and south. Electro magnetic fields cause the earth to rotate and to wobble, this wobble causes the north and south to recieve different amounts of light (causeing the seasons)... The light translates like any light bulb, face left and the left side recieves more light, (and is therefore hotter) face right and it is visa versa... the radiation of light from the sun remains a constant its the earth that wobbles causeing the seasons..