When Earth is on one side of its orbit, the northern hemisphere is tipped toward the sun, so radiation hits more squarely, during about 15 hours of daylight per day-causing summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere.
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Uses a question and answer format, with illustrations, to explain why the sky is blue, what a rainbow is, what atoms are, how gravity works, and many other scientific facts and events.
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Science in a Nanosecond: Illustrated Answers to 100 Basic Science Questions
January 1991, Prometheus Books
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in English
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Science in a nanosecond: illustrated answers to 100 basic science questions
1990, Prometheus Books
in English
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"When Earth is on one side of its orbit, the northern hemisphere is tipped toward the sun, so radiation hits more squarely, during about 15 hours of daylight per day-causing summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere."
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