We learned a lot from this project, about our Earth and our climate. We created two graphs about this project, one comparing Temperature and Latitude, the other minutes of Sunlight vs. Latitude. 

Minutes of Sunlight vs. Latitude	Temperature vs. Latitude
Download Excel graph (sunlat.xls)	Download Excel graph (templat.xls)

Right now in the world, it is summer time in the southern hemisphere, and winter in the northern hemisphere. This explains why countries, like the Philippines receive more minutes of sunlight, than we do. The reason for this is because of the tilt of the Earth on its axis, this fact creates the seasons. The reasons the temperatures aren't consistent with the minutes of sunlight is because many factors effect our weather. Temperature is dependent upon many things namely, cloud cover, cold fronts, and warm fronts. For example, we had an unusually cold week, the week of the project because a cold front came through. Generally though, the places closer to the equator were warmer than others farther away. : )

From,
Internet Collaborative Class
The Altamont School

E-mail: mmartin@altamontschool.org