2006-06-15 15:40:20 · 9 answers · asked by brian m 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Isn't it true that the poles receive 6 months of daylight and 6 months of darkness? If so wouldn't that even out the number of actual daylight?
2006-06-15 15:55:43 · update #1
actual daylight hrs that is.
2006-06-15 16:00:12 · update #2
Please also remember that while the Earth rotates at constant speed, it does not *orbit* the sun in a circular orbit, rather an ellipse.
Therefore, during one part of Earth's journey around the sun the Earth spends less time while orbiting closer to the sun than when farther away. This would mean that the Earth spent slightly less than 6 months in that section, and slightly more than 6 months when orbiting farther away from the sun.
The answer to your question is, no, not all points receive the exact same amount of daylight in one year, but the difference is small.
2006-06-15 20:57:50 · answer #1 · answered by jimdempster 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The answer is yes, theoretically... each place on
the earth should receive equal hours of day and
night within a year... However, the globe is not
a perfect sphere, but somewhat flattened at the
poles, which will distort the result. Then the
effect of mountains or other obstructions of the
horizon will reduce the hours of daylight in some
places.
The place where this is closest to the truth is
in the middle of the ocean or the middle of
a prairie (like Kansas)...
2006-06-15 16:20:01 · answer #2 · answered by PrasannanJyotish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it truly is because the earth is tilted 23.5 levels that we've seasons and why our sunlight hours enhance or decrease reckoning on the season. If there have been no tilt, there is no seasons and sunlight hours can be a similar 3 hundred and sixty 5 days round. that's a pretend question. the merely way the earth might want to nonetheless be tilted at 23.5 levels and the sunlight hours did not replace, is that if the earth stopped orbiting the sunlight and stayed in a unmarried spot. this may in no way ensue of direction.
2016-11-14 20:19:56 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the Earth's tilt does not allow for that. The North and South Pole get the least.
2006-06-15 15:42:39 · answer #4 · answered by AnswerGiver 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Points around the equater receive most. points around the poles receive least.
2006-06-15 15:46:10 · answer #5 · answered by DaddyBoy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The poles would get months of "twilight" during our spring and fall. What would that count as?
2006-06-15 16:00:41 · answer #6 · answered by karen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope, consider the south pole!!!
2006-06-15 15:46:11 · answer #7 · answered by eltivo0210 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope
2006-06-15 15:44:39 · answer #8 · answered by ramshockey778 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
2006-06-15 15:45:44 · answer #9 · answered by fred m.Ier 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋