What makes up the northern hemisphere

It is a bit lop-sided. During part of the year, Earth is closer to the Sun than at other times. However, in the Northern Hemisphere, we are having winter when Earth is closest to the Sun and summer when it is farthest away!

Compared with how far away the Sun is, this change in Earth's distance throughout the year does not make much difference to our weather. Earth's axis is an imaginary pole going right through the center of Earth from "top" to "bottom.

That is why we have day and night, and why every part of Earth's surface gets some of each. Long, long ago, when Earth was young, it is thought that something big hit Earth and knocked it off-kilter. The Southern Hemisphere experiences a milder climate compared to the Northern Hemisphere and experiences the summer season from December to February and the winter season from June to August.

It has been estimated that more than million people reside in the Southern Hemisphere. Jakarta, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Sydney, and Melbourne are some of the largest metropolitan areas that are located in the Southern Hemisphere. The areas that are located in the east of the Prime Meridian and the west of the antemeridian are considered to be a part of the Eastern Hemisphere. Often referred to as the "Oriental Hemisphere" and occasionally in a cultural and geopolitical sense the " Old World ," this hemisphere includes major parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

A part of Antarctica is also located here. The Eastern Hemisphere encompasses a greater land area compared to that of the Western Hemisphere. This lists the logos of programs or partners of NG Education which have provided or contributed the content on this page. Powered by. Any circle drawn around the Earth divides it into two equal halves called hemisphere s. A satellite picture of clouds shows a narrow band of intense rainfall, known as the inter-tropical convergence zone, just north of the equator.

That makes tropical rainfall particularly hard to predict. Department of Defense. For more information, contact Frierson at or dargan atmos.