differentiate between the climate in your state with that of the northern and southern continents
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Earth is split along two lines — the Equator running east-west and the Prime Meridian running north-south — into hemispheres. While each hemisphere, as these quarters of the earth are called, is distinct from its peers, the north-south division caused by the Equator denotes a particular shift in terms of environment, geography, and human culture. Though the Earth is a sphere suspended in space, the differences caused by this divide are hardly arbitrary — the complex factors of human settlement, weather, and ecology all feed into each other, creating a vastly different world from one hemisphere to the other.
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Look closely at a globe or map of the world and you’ll notice a key difference between the north and south hemispheres: The northern hemisphere has a much higher proportion of land to water than the southern hemisphere. The vast land masses of Eurasia and North America are less able to moderate temperatures than the oceans can. So temperatures on these large land masses will fluctuate through wider extremes than coastal areas and islands. The result is larger seasonal temperature changes in the northern hemisphere compared to the southern hemisphere.
1. The southern hemisphere a priori has a hotter summer because the Earth is at its closest to the Sun (perihelion) in early January.
2. In practice, the southern hemisphere has less overall seasonal temperature differences, because it has more ocean surface (and seawater has a high heat capacity).