The earth tilts for different times of the year. During the summer Alaska is a lot closer to the sun than florida.
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In geography, there are two different types of scales, the map scale, which is the distance on a map compared to the actual distance on Earth, and the scale of analysis, which is the spatial extent of a variable. Different scales of analysis can drastically change your perception of an area.
Global warning is when the temperature increases worldwide
Vilnus is the capital of Lithuania - a small country in Eastern Europe, on the Baltic Sea, which used to be one of the Soviet Republics before the split-up of the Soviet Union.
Despite being Lithuanian's biggest city, it has a big Polish population and it was once in Poland, not in Lithuania - which was a reason for a conflict between the two countries.