We noticed that the further away from the equator you get, the longer the days are in the summer and the shorter the days are in the winter. We think this is because of the tilt of the earth’s axis. In the summer the light hits the hemisphere pointed toward the sun more that the hemisphere pointed away from the sun. We also noticed that the farther away from the equator you get, the colder it gets. This is because the area around the equator gets the most direct sunlight. Temperature can also be affected by elevation and local weather. We came to these conclusions be graphing the data that all the schools collected. We then looked at the graphs and came to our conclusions.

We thought that the project could benefit from having more schools in the Southern Hemisphere participate. This would give everyone more data from these latitudes and would make analyzing the data easier.

E-mail: lmitchel@amphi.com