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Cycles in Nature

An Explanation of Day and Night, The Different Phases of the Moon, Seasonal Changes and Tides

An elementary level site for those who love to ask why. book with question mark

This site has four main pages: Day and Night, Seasonal Changes, The Phases of the Moon and Tides. Each page explains how and why each of these things happen.

  • The left part of this site has a list of each of the topics.
  • Each topic is shown with a picture next to the words.
  • You can click on either the words or the picture to go to that topic.
  • Below is a list of all the topics and the pictures that go with them.

      sun/moon Day and Night
      leaf Seasonal Changes
      moon Phases of the Moon
      wave Tides

  • The left side of this site does not change, so you can always use it to go where you want to go no matter where you are.
  • If you click on the word Main, it will take you back to this page.
  • You can find out about who made this page by clicking on About the Authors.
  • We listed all of the sites that helped us in creating this page in the References page.
  • There is a separate page with resources for teachers.

We hope that you have fun while learning about the Earth's cycles.

If you want to use anything from this site, please check our references on the About This Site page to see if it came from somewhere else. If so, please use that reference in your work.