Summer Me Lab Report

The hypothesis I made was supported because when the lab had concluded, it was clear that the maximum temperature of the northern hemisphere tilted towards the lamp (the Summer ME) was greater than the southern hemisphere tilted towards the lamp (the Winter ME). Although the thermometers did not all begin with the same temperature reading, I observed that by minute eight the temperatures began to reflect the positioning of the globe. The model of Summer ME was more quickly heated than the Winter ME. By comparison, the rate of temperature increase in the first eight minutes averaged a 1.88° C increase per minute for the Summer ME, and a 0.4° C increase per minute for the Winter ME. Another fault our group encountered was improperly positioning the thermometers for convenience, and some believed that their orientation may have affected the reading slightly. Other faults, such as the distance between the …show more content…
The results demonstrate to us that there is a greater area across which the energy of the sun spans during our wintertime (as shown by the Winter ME model), which allows less energy per unit area to be distributed. This leads to the cooler times of the year, when snow is able to fall and we have to dress more heavily for the weather. They also demonstrate that during the Summer months, the Earth’s northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun, and this tilt provides a smaller area across which the same energy can be spread. Lastly, it allows us to infer that because the Equator is the warmest of the three models, it is always able to receive the greatest amount of energy from the sun during the year, and is therefore subject to an annually hotter