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Chapter 8 - The Water Cycle & Climates - Pages 184 - 210
44. What does intensity of insolation depend upon?
45.
Define angle of insolation.
46.
How do we measure the angle of insolation?
47.
List two facts that are true about the noon sun?
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48. In the Northern Hemisphere when does the lowest angle of insolation occur?
49. In the Northern Hemisphere when does the highest angle of insolation occur?
50.
Define vertical ray.
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51. What is true about the vertical rays of the sun at noon each day?
52.
What occurs at other latitudes on the Earth?
53. Where does the most direct and most intense insolation occur at noon on the summer solstice?
54. What do the low angle ( tangential ) rays of the sun that strike the Earth result in?
55.
Define duration of insolation.
56. When does an area of Earth receive the most heat energy?
57. What is the relationship between angle of insolation, duration of insolation and temperature?
58. In the Northern Hemisphere when does the greatest duration of insolation occur?