E) Answer the following questions briefly.
1. Explain why Norway is called the "Land of Midnight Sun".
2. Mention the factors that causes seasons.
3. Why does the two hemispheres experience opposite seasons.
Answers
Answer:
1,Norway is known as the land of midnight sun. Due to Norway's high altitude, there are seasonal variations in daylight because of the periodd of refracted sunlight is long. In this country, for about a period of 76 days from late May to late July, the sun never sets for about 20 hours.
2,The seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth's rotational axis away or toward the sun as it travels through its year-long path around the sun. The Earth has a tilt of 23.5 degrees relative to the "ecliptic plane" (the imaginary surface formed by it's almost-cicular path around the sun
3,This is because during summer or winter, one part of the planet is more directly exposed to the rays of the Sun than the other, and this exposure alternates as the Earth revolves in its orbit.