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NATURE STUDY 



Facts : 



The sun is more than a million times larger than the 

 earth, and more than ninety-one million miles distant. 



We move around the sun, which sends to us light and 

 heat by wave motions. The light and heat do a great 

 deal of work for us. Without them it would always be 



Latona and her children, Apollo and Diana. 



bitterly cold and intensely dark. No rain could fall, no 

 rivers flow, and neither plants nor animals exist. 



The course of the sun varies. It rises in or near the 

 east, sets in or near the west, and in the summer journeys 

 higher in the sky than in the winter. Hence in summer 

 and at midday the vertical rays reach us, and it is then 

 hotter than in the winter, or in the morning or evening 

 when, the rays being slanting, the heat and light are less 

 intense in a given locality, since they cover a larger area. 



