In January, the thermal equator
A) trends southward into the interior of South America and Africa.
B) peaks in the interior of Eurasia.
C) is not influenced by continentality.
D) trends northward over all ocean basins.
Question 2
In July, the thermal equator
A) trends equatorward over continents and poleward over the oceans.
B) assumes an orientation that closely parallels that of the equator.
C) trends poleward over continents and equatorward over the oceans.
D) is apparently random and has yet to be adequately explained.
A scene from a kelp forest off the west coast of North America. Like terrestrial forests, kelp fores
Adult male tortoise, South Africa
The Moon’s Interior
Black and White Out-Migration from Virginia and North and South Carolina, 1870–1940 (in thousands)
Net cooling of the poles and warming at the equator
Basics of Thermal Spraying