Final Report - December, 2004

The Earth Science classes at Villa Maria Academy, in Buffalo, New York, participated in this project. We recorded the temperature every day and determined the number of minutes of daylight using information from the Buffalo daily newspaper. After looking at the data, we concluded that some areas of the Earth recieve more sunlight than others due to the Earth's shape and also because of the seasonal changes associated with the shape of the Earth. This results in some areas being hotter than others. We found that areas in the northern hemisphere had shorter minutes of sunlight and lower average temperatures as latitude increased in most instances. In the southern hemisphere, the average minutes of daylight increased as latitude increased but the average temperature increased as latitude decreased. It was interesting to the see the results for the minutes of daylight and average temperatures from the southern hemisphere.

E-mail: Mskrzyniecki@villamariaacademy.org