Question

A place at 2° N latitude has an average annual temperature of –6° C. What can you conclude about the environment?

Question 8 options:

It is cold, so it must be in the northern polar region.

Nothing can be concluded except the information given.

It is at a very high altitude.

It must be submerged at the bottom of a deep ocean to be equatorial and so cold.

Answer 1

We can conclude that the place is at a very high altitude.

Step-by-step explanation:

• The place is located at 2°N latitude. Thus, it is located in the tropical region between equator and tropic of cancer and not in the northern polar region.
• Tropical region of the earth is characterized by warm and wet climate.
• It cannot be at the bottom of a deep ocean as when we go deeper from the earth , the temperature rises.
• Thus the only possibility that remains : the place is at very high altitude, because the temperature decreases as we go up higher on the surface of the Earth.