1. If you were to travel from Irvine, CA to Chicago when would the temperature c
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1. If you were to travel from Irvine, CA to Chicago when would the temperature change you would experience be the greatest?
a. If you traveled during the winter. b. If you traveled during the summer. c. The temperature change would be same no matter when you went d. There would be no change in temperature.
2. The amount of daylight in the midlatitudes on the vernal equinox would be ____ as on the autumnal equinox.
a. much less. b. the same. c. much more. d. less in the Northern Hemisphere. e. less in the Summer Hemisphere.
Explanation / Answer
1. a. If you travelled during the winter
This is because when you travel from Irvine to Chicago you travel northwards. During the winter the sun's rays fall directly on southern tropic (tropic of Capricorn) and this creates a greater angular gradient for Northern hemisphere and the more north you go, the less sunlight you receive, causing greater temperature changes.
2. b. The same
Equinox is when the earth's equator passes through the centre plane of the sun's disk and therefore during both the vernal and autumnal equinoxes the amount of daylight on the mid-latitudes would be same.
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