This is our final report from Broadgreen Intermediate School in Nelson, New Zealand. We are Year 7 and 8 students.
This is a report from four different students:
In the project I have learnt that the equator in the middle of the world is the hottest and when you get further away it gets colder. New Zealand is 40 degrees away from the equator and Nelson, which is in the middle of New Zealand, is 41 degrees. This is the same as northwest America. Placerville had an average temperature of 18 celsuis. America is in late fall or autumn and New Zealand is in late Spring. The reason the equator is so hot is the sun shines on the equator most of the time and the more of an angle the sun is the less hot it is.
* * * I liked doing this project and chatting with other schools in U.S.A. I learnt a lot about temperatures, like Phoenix's average temperature was 27.8. I also learnt that the southern hemisphere has little countries whereas the northern hemisphere they are bigger. It is late spring in New Zealand now and late Autumn in U.S.A. We are in the southern hemisphere and U.S.A. is in the northern hemisphere.
* * * I found that the further away you move from the equator the colder it gets. The invisible lines that run across the world are called latitude lines and there are two of each numbered latitude, one for the northern hemisphere and one for the south. Longitude lines are the same but they run vertically.
* * * I have learnt that at the equator it is very hot and as you move
outwards on either side it gets very cold. I also learnt that the latitude
lines run is horizontal and the longitude run vertically. I also figured
out that if you build a house of mirrors (the mirrors on the inside) at
daytime in the desert then the area inside the house would not cool down
because the heat cannot reflect back into space.