Question

What is the effect of latitude on temperature?

Answer 1

✔️ Latitude effects the temperature of an area.

✔️as the earth is bulging at the equator and has a tilted Axis the sunlight directly falls upon the equator

✔️ the equatorial region has the hottest climate on the earth and the poles have the coldest temperature.

✔️ it is because the sun rays directly fall upon the equator, but the poles receive it on an angle.

✔️ therefore the places near the latitude equator are hot than the places in the polar latitudes.

Answer 2

Answer

• Latitude is the measurement of the distance of a location on the Earth from the equator.

• The further away from the equator that you are the less sunlight that this location receives.

• This has to do with the shape of the earth.

• Since Earth is round, not every place receives the same amount of sunlight, or heat.

• Another reason is due to the angle of solar incidence, this is the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth's surface.

• At the Equator, the Sun's rays strike the Earth at a right angle, which makes the heat more intense and concentrated over a small area.

• Less heat is lost to the atmosphere as the rays travel a shorter distance through the atmosphere.

• At the poles, the Sun's rays strike the Earth at an acute angle, this spreads the heat over a larger area. More heat is lost to the atmosphere as the rays travel a longer distance through the atmosphere.