explain the cause of the difference in temperatures at the equator and the poles .?

Answer 1

At latitudes between 231/2 degrees north and 231/2 degrees south, the sun is directly overhead at noon twice a year. In these cases, the sun's rays shine directly down toward the surface. The radiation that reaches the atmosphere is therefore at its most intense.

In all other cases, the rays arrive at an angle to the surface and are therefore less intense. The closer a place is to the poles, the smaller the angle and therefore the less intense the radiation. Due to decreases in the intensity of radiation, average temperatures decline from the equator to the poles. Seasonal changes in solar radiation and the number of hours of sunlight also vary with latitude.

Answer 2

The main reason is because the angle of the sun is greater at the north pole.
Take a flashlight and put is directly over a piece of paper on a table. You will see the light is concentrated in a small area.
Put the same flashlight at a 70 degree angle to the piece of paper and see the concentration of the light is spread out.
Now consider the heat in the form of infrared light being sent to the sun and it is being spread out because it is at a different angle vs the head on impact it would receive at the equator.

It could be said the equator is further away, but the sun is 93,000,000 away. A mear 6000 miles difference is insignificant as far as diffusion of heat.

Answer 3

the difference between the tempature at the poles and the equator is caused because the earth is tilted so the sun's rays don't hit the poles nearly aas much of the equator.

hope this helped

Answer 4

This is probably because the rays of the sun fall directly on the equator while they fall obliquely at the poles. So the amount of heat received is much less. The tilted position and the "oblate spheroid" shape of the earth is also responsible for this.

Answer 5

the sun rays get straight to the equator (almost like horizontally) but the poles receive the sun rays in a perpendicular way. That is, not too many sun rays.

Answer 6

Angle of sunlight. Since the equator is more direct to the sunlight, it is hotter; since the rays hitting the poles are more oblique, they do not carry the same amount of impact and thus, it is colder

Answer 7

the sun light is more direst at the equator than the poles