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Why is it hotter at the equator than anywhere else in the world?
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∙ 13y ago
Because the earth is a sphere, the light hits the equator more directly than it does other parts of the world. The light is most indirect when hitting the poles so it is coldest there. This is because on the angle the sun's rays hit the earth at the poles, the solar radiation has to go through about double the thickness of the atmosphere than it would when hitting the equator
It is not because it is closer to the sun.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoYou know that the earth is on a tilt, and in tHe winter we are generally tilted away from the sun and that's why it's cold, the equator spends 99 o/o of it's time in direct light path of the sun, and is rarely tilted away from it, so its the hottest
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∙ 11y agoIt's wider so there is more space for heat and stuff. Also there aren't many mountains there, and where there are mountains, there's snow, right? haha
hi i am going to change that. The earth rotates in a circle and the sun is mostly exposed to the equator, and the poles get very little glimpses of sun.
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∙ 12y agobecause they get more sunlight and because it is made there
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∙ 12y agoBecause the sun is always on it, the earth is curved
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