2007-11-20 22:18:29 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Because the north pole does not sit on a mass of land. It is just ice. Therefor sits at a lower altitude (sea level) within the oceans water witch warm it. The south pole sits at higher altitude in the cool air.
The earths tilt has nothing to do with it because 6 months later as the earth rotates around the sun. The opposing pole will be the one nearer the sun.
2007-11-20 22:26:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
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2015-08-20 13:46:50 · answer #2 · answered by Abbi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is The South Pole Cold
2016-09-29 23:29:59 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The South Pole is colder than the North Pole because the South Pole is at a higher elevation than the north pole.
The North Pole sits in the middle of the Artic Ocean (i.e no land mass below the artic ice sheet). The South Pole's ice sheet sits on top of a continent (known as Antarica) at an elevation of 9,000 feet above sea level.
2007-11-20 22:23:59 · answer #4 · answered by John 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The north pole is floating on the Arctic Ocean, which is subject to Ocean Currents, some warmer. Antarctica is a Continent, where kilometers of Ice have built up over a rock core...
2007-11-20 22:24:15 · answer #5 · answered by Pat 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The South Pole, which is more than three
kilometers above sea level, is considerably colder than the North Pole, ...
2007-11-20 22:23:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
The Earth's axis is not exactly vertical(at 90 deg) but has a slight tilt, which makes its northern tip(north pole) closer to the Sun's radiation. Therefore the South Pole is cooler.
2007-11-20 22:30:48 · answer #7 · answered by Rajesh Iyer 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Bob S is correct. Continental Landmass vs Sea. Land Cold, sea warm, relatively speaking. Take the UK and Moscow, roughly on the same latitude. UK surrounded by sea, mild winters, Moscow surrounded by land/continent, cold winters.
More technically Seas/Oceans heat up and cool down more slowly when exposed to sunlight. They are better heatsinks. Land masses, conversely, heat up and lose heat rapidly.
This also explains why Russia/Moscow has hot summers compared to the UKs temperate summers. Did we have one this year?
2007-11-20 23:46:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is dark there most of the winter, when it does get sun it reflects off the ice sheets of Antarctica.
There's very little precipitation there so the light which is reflected is not absorbed by water particles above. Warmer moist air which pass above fall very fast creating high winds in a kind of one way convection.
2007-11-21 08:50:28 · answer #9 · answered by ricnoodle 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the south pole receives less sunlight than the north
2007-11-21 06:07:35 · answer #10 · answered by Loren S 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋