Question

Question 8

Answer 1

Answer:

B. A few hours after i.e the peak timings.

Explanation:

• As can be seen from the large bodies of water which store large amounts of heat than the land surfaces, thus have a very high heating capacity.  

• The changes in the sunlight intensity vary with various latitudes determines the patterns of the energy distribution over the earth landscape.

• It's experienced that the places near the equator get warmer as compared to that of the tropics and polar s regions and similarly there exits a day and night variation.  

• In the day time, the average annual temperature reaches its maximum in the noontime from 2 to 5 pm i.e around 3 pm so it's clearly,  understood that the earth absorbs this radiated heat energy in the form of short waves from the sun i.e just after some hour of incoming maximum solar energy.  

• This diurnal temperature variation occurs, particularly in the higher latitudes.