Laurel-Nokomis Middle School
(7th Grade), FL, USA
My name is Tyson. I’m reporting from
Laurel-Nokomis Middle School in Florida, USA (27.1º N. latitude, 82.4º W.
longitude). I am in the 7th grade, and I am doing this experiment as my
science fair project.
This project ran from November 3 - 7. To measure the temperature, I took
the daily temperature between 11 AM and 1 PM, (I used 12 noon), using a
digital thermometer. To find the number of minutes of sunlight I used a
source on the internet that gave me a calendar of sunrise/sunset times.
After reviewing the collected data, I was able to clearly see that the
average number of minutes of daylight during the week was much greater in
the southern hemisphere. In fact, the further south I went the more
daylight minutes increased, and the further north I traveled using my
data, the less daylight minutes. After some research I was not surprised
by this data because in the fall the Earth is tilted in a way that puts
the southern hemisphere closer to the sun, and the northern hemisphere is
tilted away.
When I compared the temperature vs. the latitude I had thought the
locations near the equator would be warmer, and the data proved this to be
true. I also discovered that the southern hemisphere temperatures were
warmer than the northern hemisphere temperatures, again due to the tilt of
the Earth on it’s axis.
E-mail:
laura_bradly@sarasota.k12.fl.us
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