Question

The intensity of solar radiation received at lower latitudes (near the equator) compared to higher latitudes (near the poles) is:

Answer 1

Greater.

Step-by-step explanation:

• As the Albedo of the planet is 35% the solar radiation received at the poles is mostly reflected back by the snow covers mountain and the landscape and due to the bulge of the earth equator the planet has an elliptical rays of the sun that falls on the poles and there gets less heated than the lower latitudes that directly absorbs the insolation and the waves travel much shorter distance to it.