Equator means equal night. Explain how this definition relates to the number of daylight and night- time hours

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Answer 1

Actually, it's "equinox" that means equal night.

On the equator, the days and nights are always 12 hours long (not exactly, the width of the sun's disk plus the effects of atmospheric refraction make the days a few minutes longer than the nights). The tilt of the earth's axis affects the path the sun takes across the sky, but not the length of the day.

On the equinoxes, and at no other time, the length of the day and night is 12 hours the whole world over (except right at the poles), because the plane containing the tilt of the earth's axis is at right angles to the direction between the earth and the sun - that is, the axis is not pointing at all toward or away from the sun, and the poles are equidistant from the sun.

Answer 2

the finest answer is B) equinox - 2 dates in the course of the three hundred and sixty 5 days even as the sunlight crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and nighttime hours are equivalent. those dates are March twentieth or twenty first, counting on the three hundred and sixty 5 days, and September twenty second or twenty third, back counting on the three hundred and sixty 5 days.

Answer 3

For goodness sake, do your own homework! It's not hard at all to find references on the internet or in books with info on the equator. A search engine gives you faster results than waiting for answer, I might add.