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can any buddy plz plz provide me with some notes on how longitude and latitude influences climate and day length ?? plzzz its urgentt!
 
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Does Latitude Affect Climate?
Latitude does exert a large amount of control over any given area's climate. In fact, latitude is probably the single most important determining factor in climate. While other variables such as weather patterns and elevation have a large impact on any geographical area, latitude affects climate the most. For proof of this one only needs to compare areas of extreme northern or southern latitude, such as the North Pole or South Pole, with places that lie along the equator, such as Colombia or Somalia.
Why does Latitude affect climate?
Latitude affects climate in an area because it dictates the intensity and duration of sun exposure. As the Earth orbits the sun it also wobbles slightly on its axis. At times the Northern hemisphere is closer to the sun than the Southern hemisphere and at some times it is further from it. When an area is closer to the sun the days are longer and the sun's rays are stronger. This heats the climate. This is the reason that places experience seasonal variation in temperature. Those locations close to the equator, however, exist in a nearly constant state of summer because they always get relatively strong sunlight and have long days.

Does longitude affect climate?
Longitude doesn't affect an area's climate because the Earth only wobbles on its axis in a vertical fashion. Besides that fact, the Earth is constantly spinning which ensures that all longitudes of the Earth receives as much sunlight and strength of sunlight as the other longitudes that lie at that latitude. While climates do vary from one specific longitude to another this is because of other factors, such as weather patterns, and not because of the longitude itself

Sorry dont know how londitude and latitude affect day length
 
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