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What causes the seasons? Please use two complete sentences

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Answer: The seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth's rotational axis away or toward the sun as it travels through its year-long path around the sun. The Earth has a tilt of 23.5 degrees relative to the "ecliptic plane" (the imaginary surface formed by it's almost-cicular path around the sun).

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the earth moves closer to the sun and we get summer. then when the earth moves further from the sun, we get winter.
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