§3.3 Difference between summer and winter

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Tropical climate

Temperate klimaat

Polar climate

Arid climate

§3.3 Difference between summer and winter

Learning goals

- You know what the consequences are of the angled position of the Earth’s axis for day and night on Earth.

- You understand why the angled position of the Earth influences the seasons and temperature on Earth.

- You can make a drawing of the Earth with respect to the Sun for different times of the year.

sunbeams have to travel a .... distance through the atmosphere

1. Longer
2. Shorter
3. the same

Explain why the sunrays hitting the surface in the Netherlands generate less heat than they do on the equator

Equator

Netherlands

Northpole

Temperature differences in a year

• At higher latitudes the seasons give different temperatures. Warmer summers and colder winters.
• At low latitudes the temperatures are the same all year around. There are no seasons.

Latiudes?

0

Poleday and polenight

Seasons are created because of the tilt of earths axis

Poleday= periode in the year when the sun never sets. 

exists only above the pole circles

polenight: periode in the year when the sun never rises. Only above the polecircles.

When it is poleday at the northpole, they have ... at the southpole

1. Polenight
2. Poleday as well

When it is summer at the northern hemisphere, what season do they have at the southern hemisphere? Explain.

Vragen? 

Pole to pole..