Talk:Northern Hemisphere

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i am doing a science project and i need to know why is the sun stronger in summer then in the winter in the Northern Hemisphere -- unsigned comment

Because of the Earth's axial tilt with respect to the sun. So when it's summer in the northern hemisphere it is because the earth is leaning toward the sun (and the sun shines on the northern hemisphere more during the day); when it's winter it is leaning away from the sun (and the sun shines on the southern hemisphere more during the day).

Look at this picture. When the earth is on the left (leaning away from the sun) then it's winter; when the earth is on the right (leaning toward the sun) then it's summer. (The arrow going through the earth is the axis of the earth and goes from the south pole to the north pole. Cburnett 19:55, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nothern Hemisphere or northern hemisphere

2006-07-20 this was moved to "Northern hemisphere" [1] but article since 2002-01-16 was at "Northern Hemisphere". What is right? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 08:37, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I consider it a proper noun. Since the moving user didn't even do one of the following:

• change the article text from "Northern Hemisphere" to "northern hemisphere"
• change the template to point to northern hemisphere
• rename the three remaining cardinal direction hemispheres

Since the move merely served to make this article inconsistent (even if arguably correct) with the rest, I moved in back. I welcome dialogue of course. Cburnett 18:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

This is one of those cases in which the distinction between proper and common noun seems problematic to me, so it would be good to see some authoritative input on the grammar. Note that within the body text of the four cardinal-direction "hemisphere" articles, the hemisphere names are usually in lower case. Thus, although the titles are now consistently capitalized among the four articles, they are mostly inconsistent with the predominant usage within the articles proper. -rich<Rich Janis 01:59, 18 August 2007 (UTC)>

[edit] hemisphere-Help!

i need a good description of hemisphere for school!!!! please help by posting some -thanx if u do-

                                         thank you,
                                             Angelina77  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.226.38.232 (talk) 00:35, 3 October 2007 (UTC) 

[edit] Cleanup

The titles are a little long. Auroranorth (sign) 12:49, 30 October 2007 (UTC)