1) All the following influence seasonality, EXCEPT:
a) Earth’s proximity to the Sun
b) The tilt of Earth’s axis
c) Earth’s revolution around the Sun
d) Latitude
2) Explain why places at higher latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere experience longer daylengths during their summer months.
3) What is the subsolar point? Why does it migrate throughout the year? And where is it on the December solstice?
4) Geographers use a spatial approach when studying the world. Explain what this means.
a) Earth’s proximity to the Sun
b) The tilt of Earth’s axis
c) Earth’s revolution around the Sun
d) Latitude
2) Explain why places at higher latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere experience longer daylengths during their summer months.
3) What is the subsolar point? Why does it migrate throughout the year? And where is it on the December solstice?
4) Geographers use a spatial approach when studying the world. Explain what this means.
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For 1-3 using a model of the earth and sun helps understand the concepts. Understanding it will help much more that just getting or memorizing an answer since the question may be phrased in a different format on an exam.
1 - A
2 - Because of the axis of the earth relative to the sun. In the summer months the sun is perpendicular to higher northern latitudes.
3 - The point on a planet is where its sun is perceived to be directly overhead (in zenith), that is where the sun's rays are hitting the planet exactly perpendicular to its surface. It migrates through the year because of the axis of the earth relative to the sun. On December Solstice it at the Tropic of Cancer, about 23.5 degrees South latitude.
4 - Geographers can study anything that occurs on earth and connect 1 or more phenomenon to a spatial dimension. Everything studied is processed through thinking in terms of spatial dimensions (space, location, distance, movement, place, density, area, etc.) are a way of thinking, and a way of thinking is an approach. An example: a biologist studying frogs would look at the cells, mating behaviors, or anatomical systems of frogs. A geographer studying frogs would be interested in where frogs live, why they live there, where they go in their lives, and why they bear their offspring in certain places (for example).
1 - A
2 - Because of the axis of the earth relative to the sun. In the summer months the sun is perpendicular to higher northern latitudes.
3 - The point on a planet is where its sun is perceived to be directly overhead (in zenith), that is where the sun's rays are hitting the planet exactly perpendicular to its surface. It migrates through the year because of the axis of the earth relative to the sun. On December Solstice it at the Tropic of Cancer, about 23.5 degrees South latitude.
4 - Geographers can study anything that occurs on earth and connect 1 or more phenomenon to a spatial dimension. Everything studied is processed through thinking in terms of spatial dimensions (space, location, distance, movement, place, density, area, etc.) are a way of thinking, and a way of thinking is an approach. An example: a biologist studying frogs would look at the cells, mating behaviors, or anatomical systems of frogs. A geographer studying frogs would be interested in where frogs live, why they live there, where they go in their lives, and why they bear their offspring in certain places (for example).