Why is there a difference between the temperature at the equator and the north and south poles?

Answer 1

One difference is that the earth is tilted on a axis so the sun hits the equator more so then it does the poles because the north pole I wanna say faces away and the south pole goes under the rays

Answer 2

Due to the larger surface area presented to the sun in all seasons, the equator receives more energy than the rest of the planet, causing higher temperatures. This is not the only reason, as the equator is also more humid and has more cloud cover than the rest of the planet on average.

Answer 3

Latitude. The further away you get from the equator, the colder it will get. This is because the sun has more area to heat up at the Poles because of the curve of the Earth , so it's energy is wasted; whereas at the Equator, there is less area to heat up because the sun is directly shining onto it, so it's hotter.

Latitude is the imaginary lines around the globe which shows the distance North or South of the Equator (in Degrees).

Answer 4

From what I know, it's warmer on the equator because the equator is more of like the focal point of the sun, not to say the sun is focused upon the earth but rather that more sunlight hits that area of earth than the poles. To demonstrate this, take a flashlight and hold it at an angle on a spherical object, notice that more light lands directly towards the middle of the sphere rather than the poles of the sphere.

Answer 5

Light from the sun hits the equator at a more direct angle.

Answer 6

The difference is due to the angle, and therefore the intensity, of the sunlight hitting them.

Answer 7

equater lies in center so sun light dirctly fall on it but not in poles that's why there is teperature change in equater and poles