Question

The temperature of an area depends on _____.
(A) Distance from the equator
(B) Height from water level
(C) Distance from the ocean
(D)All the above

Answer 1

Hint:Temperature of an area depends largely upon its latitude because places near the equator are extremely popular because here rays of the sun are vertical and places are almost tropics.

Complete answer:
Latitude refers to the space of a location on the surface from the equator about the North and South poles (e.g., Florida features a lower latitude than Maine); altitude is defined as how high a location is above sea level.
For every 100-meter rise in altitude, the temperature decreases by about 1 degree Centigrade. High-altitude regions, like mountainous places, experience low temperatures.
Earth’s surface absorbs heat from the sun. When the surface warms up, the warmth diffuses into and warms the atmosphere, and successively, transfers a number of the warmth to the upper layers of the Atmosphere.
The latitude of an area determines the quantity of sunlight an area receives. For instance, the equator gets maximum sunlight so higher the temperature, the tropics get slanting rays of the sun, so has the comparatively lesser temperature.

Hence the correct answer is option D.

Note:The temperature depends on latitude because after you are closer to the equator it's hotter, but whenever closer to the arctic circles it will be colder. Here the temperature decreases with the rise in altitude.