This document provides information about the four seasons - spring, summer, autumn, and winter. For each season, it discusses the technical definitions, dates, characteristics, and some additional fun facts. For example, it notes that spring refers to ideas of rebirth and renewal. It also shares that in Australia and New Zealand, summer officially begins on December 1st. The document aims to educate about the seasons from a global perspective, including differences in season dates and characteristics between the northern and southern hemispheres.

1. Curiosities about the seasons
Burbea Gabriella
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Scoala nr. 11 Brasov, Romania
The Seasons
Comenius Multilateral project

2. Spring
Spring is one of the four
conventional temperate seasons,
following winter and preceding summer
There are various technical definitions of
spring, but local usage of the term varies
according to local climate, cultures and
customs. When it is spring in the Northern
Hemisphere, it will be autumn in
the Southern Hemisphere. At the
spring equinox, days are approximately 12
hours long with day length increasing as
the season progresses. Spring and
"springtime" refer to the season, and also
to ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal,
resurrection and regrowth

3. You know…..?
-The red color from the
Martisor came from the

4. Summer
Summer is the hottest of the
four temperate seasons, falling between spring
and autumn. At the summer solstice, the days are
longest and the nights are shortest, with day-length
decreasing as the season progresses after the
solstice. The date of the beginning of summer
varies according to climate, tradition and culture,
but when it is summer in the Northern
Hemisphere it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere,
and vice versa.

5. You know…?
In Australia and New Zealand, Summer officially
begins on 1 December and ends on 28 and 29
February
Where a seasonal lag of half a season or more is common, reckoning
based on astronomical markers is shifted half a season. By this
method, in North America, summer is the period from the summer
solstice (usually 20 or 21 June in the Northern Hemisphere) to
the autumn equinox.

6. Autumn
Autumn, interchangeably known as fall in North
America, is one of the four temperate seasons.
Autumn marks the transition
from summer into winter, in September or March
when the arrival of night becomes noticeably
earlier and the temperature cools considerably.
One of its main features is theshedding of
leaves from deciduous trees

7. In Asian mysticism, Autumn is
associated with
the element of metal, and
subsequently with the colour white,
the White Tiger of the West, and
death and mourning

8. Winter
Winter is the coldest season of the year
in polar climates and temperate climates,
between autumn and spring. Winter is
caused by the axis of the Earth in that
hemisphere being oriented away from
the Sun. Different cultures define different
dates as the start of winter, and some use a
definition based on weather. When it is
winter in the Northern Hemisphere it is
summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and
vice versa

9. Did you know?....
The moment of winter solstices when the sun's
elevation with respect to the North or South
Pole is at its most negative value