Why do we have the seasons? The seasons change bacause the earth is rotating around the sun. When we are the furthest from the sun it is winter and as we get closest to the sun it is summer. The seasons differ in different parts of the world because of this as well.
Why do we have phases of the moon? We have different phases of the moon because as the earth is rotating, its shadow projects onto the moon.
I learned that I was among the same group of people who have the wrong ideas about the seasons and the lunar phases. I learned the different seasons are caused by the tilt of the earth's axis in regards to the sun, which it orbits. As the earth orbits the sun tilted at an angle, it is closer to the Sun at different points.
I also learned the we have phases of the moons because they are produced by the alignment of the Moon and the Sun in the sky.
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