Nathan Hale Middle School Results

1) Trend between Latitude and Mean Temperature. The farther the Northern latitude the colder it is. The more South the latitude the warmer it gets.South of the equator is even warmer than right on the equator itself.

2) Trend between latitude and minutes of daylight. The further North, the less daylight. The further South, teh more daylight. This has to be because the first 2 trends are related to each other. You need more daylight in order to get warmer temperatures and vice versa.

3)Does the data fit the trends? Yes. We looked at the latitudes North and South and it checked out.

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5) Methods of collection. We examined the latitude of each country and matched it with the temperature and daylight. We decided that the Southern Hemisphere is receiving more direct rays fron the sun and the Northern Hemisphere is receiving indirect rays from the sun. From, Tom Kim, John Falkenstern,Igor Sorokin, and Eun Young Park.