ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND POPULATION
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Question
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Average temperature on land varies seasonally
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Temperature progressively decreases from pole to equator
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Temperature progressively decreases from plains to mountain tops
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Detailed explanation-1: -Temperature decreases progressively from equator towards the poles because it receives less sunlight.
Detailed explanation-2: -Temperature range goes higher with distance from the equator. This is because the suns rays are dispersed over a larger area of land as you move away from the equator.
Detailed explanation-3: -As you move further away from the equator towards the poles, less sun is received during the year and the temperature becomes colder.
Detailed explanation-4: -Since the amount of insolation received by the ground surface decreases poleward from the equator i.e., from low latitudes towards high latitudes because the sun’s rays become more and more oblique (slanting) poleward and hence air temperature also decreases poleward.