Earth's Climate and Seasons: ‘How Do They Relate?’ The tilt, shape, rotation, revolution, and the energy received from the sun all share one relationship. They play major rolls in determining what the earth’s climate and seasons are. First of all, the earth’s tilt effects these things, because as the earth revolves around the sun, either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere is tilted closer to the sun. The earth tilts in the same direction all of the time, so that means that one poll must always be closer than the other. This is how seasons occur. When one hemisphere is closer to the sun, it is sum