How do you relate and explain a planet's distance from the Sun to things like the time of their year & their average tempareature

What we call a "year" is the time a body takes to complete one orbital revolution

in its path around the sun. The way gravity works, the farther a planet is from the

sun, the slower it moves, and the longer it takes to complete that trip. So, farther

out from the sun means a longer "year".

Everybody knows that if you want to get more warmth, then you have to stand closer

to the fire, and it's the same with planets. The farther a planet is from the sun, the less

heat it gets from the sun, and in most cases, that means its average temperature is

lower. (The planet's average temperature is affected by other things besides its distance

from the sun, such as how much heat comes up from inside, and how much heat its

atmosphere traps.)

The farther a planet's rotation axis is tilted from being perpendicular to the plane

of its orbit, the more seasonal variation there can be in the temperature at any one

place on its surface. Of course, this is kind of irrelevant if the planet has no surface.