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usdragonfly
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What is the term used to describe the place where the sun does not set
for at least one day and there is no night?
I don't know the answer!! help!! 
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Re: help!!
« Reply #1 on: Mar 2nd, 2004, 1:43pm » |
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Polar circle/region?
(I'm a bit mistified why this is under psychology, is this a test?  )
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Re: help!!
« Reply #2 on: Mar 2nd, 2004, 1:47pm » |
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i'm sorry! i'll move it!
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Re: help!!
« Reply #3 on: Mar 2nd, 2004, 2:43pm » |
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I wouldn't worry about it too much.. Only William can move it anyway..
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Re: help!!
« Reply #4 on: Mar 2nd, 2004, 2:45pm » |
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yeah i noticed that, i'm sorry!
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Re: help!!
« Reply #5 on: Mar 2nd, 2004, 6:27pm » |
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They are called the Artic Circle, and the Antartic Circle. (More accurately, the Artic and Antartic circles are the boundaries of the these regions. Generally, the regions themselves are referred to as being "within the Artic circle". "Polar regions" is also used, but may refer more generally to extreme northern or southern lattitudes, rather than strictly within the circles.)
And they only have no night during the spring & summer. During the fall and winter, they go through periods of continuous night without any day. How long this lasts depends on how far north or south you go. At the poles, days and nights are 6 months long each. On the circles themselves, there is only one night a year when the sun never quite sets, and one day when it never quite rises.
But even below the circles, while the sun does set, it never gets truly dark around the summer solstice. I once spent a week in Anchorage, Alaska (on the southern coast) & during that time it never got dark enough to see the stars, much less the Aurora. I'm told that at the winter solstice, Anchorage gets about 4 hours of daylight, but have no intention of finding out for myself! 
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Re: help!!
« Reply #6 on: Jun 24th, 2005, 10:03am » |
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on Mar 2nd, 2004, 6:27pm, Icarus wrote:| They are called the Artic Circle, and the Antartic Circle. (More accurately, the Artic and Antartic circles are the boundaries of the these regions. Generally, the regions themselves are referred to as being "within the Artic circle"... |
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Even more accurately, the Arctic and Antarctic are...
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