Due to its inclination, however, the northern hemisphere faces toward the sun during the northern summer and receives more sunlight, but in the northern winter it is tilted away from the sun and thus receives less radiation.
Literacy Connection Many of the activities described above include the skill of comparing and contrasting.
Poles Apart: Why Penguins and Polar Bears Will Never Be Neighbors.
Students can use this to record characteristics of the Arctic and Antarctic, rather than phrasing them as similarities and differences.
Secondly, it contributes two to three times more to the natural greenhouse effect than does carbon dioxide.
The gas condenses into small droplets or, in certain circumstances, into small ice particles that waft freely in the air and commonly become visible from the ground as clouds or fog.