which hemisphere has more water the northern or southern?
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The southern, by far. The majority of the world's land,\nespecially Asia, is located in the nothern hemisphere.\nAlmost everything from Chile to Mozambique is water,\nexcept for Australia.
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Equator!\n\nThe Arctic Circle is in the North.  The Tropic of Capricorn is in the South.  So the Equator is between them.
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The seasons are determined by the tilt of the Earth.  The Earth's rotation goes about an axis with the ends at the poles.  But that axis isn't parallel to the Earth's orbit.  It's slanted by about 20 degrees.  In the months of June, July and August, the North Pole is tilted toward the Sun.  That means that the Northern Hemisphere gets more sunlight more directly, which makes it have longer days and higher temperatures.  In December, January and February, the North Pole tilts away from the Sun, meaning it gets relatively little sunlight and that is less intense.  So it has short days and low temperatures.  The South Pole points in the opposite direction from the North, so the Southern Hemisphere has opposite seasons.\n\nWhat New York has to do with any of this I don't know.
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There are Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western hemispheres. The Earth is usually divided into North and South (by the equator) or East and West (by the Prime Meridian), but not four parts because 'hemi' refers to half of the earth.
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Due to the effect, cyclones rotate counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. However, contrary to popular opinion, it has no noticeable effect on the rotation of water in sinks and toilets - see the toilets/bathtubs section below.
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Put simply, the earth spins from west to east so there is a drag of air (and water) from east to west as it partly resists the earth's motion.\n\nThis effect is most pronounced at the equator which is spinning fastest. Hence there are strong ocean and wind currents from east to west along the equator. The trade winds are sucked into the wake or tail of this from the north and the south. So in the northern hemisphere they are northeast to southwest, in the southern hemispere they are southeast to northwest.
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In the northern Hemisphere the days are longer during the summer months and shorter in the winter months.  The opposite is true in the Southern Hemisphere.  To get exactly length of the day I think you would need a computer program.  The calculation seems a bit complicated.
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South of North America.
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Actually, the sun is at a focus of the ellipse not at the center, so there is only one closest and one farthest point. \n\nBut that has nothing to do with summers and winters! In fact, the summer in the northern hemisphere is when the earth is farthest from the sun! The tilt of the earth's axis is what makes the seasons. As we go around the sun, the northern hemisphere is sometimes pointed in the general direction of the sun (giving summer then) and at other times it is pointed away from the sun (giving winter then). When the northern hemisphere is having summer (because it is pointed toward the sun), the southern hemisphere is having winter (because it is pointed away).
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The longest river in the world flows north, the Nile. \n\nThe Rhine ends up northerly, though if I am not mistaken, farther inland, flows predominantly westerly.\n\nThose are the main big ones, though just about any river that empties into a body of water north of the landmass it is on, is going to, out of necessity, flow generally northerly. Such rivers would be in Canada, Alaska, and Russia emptying into the Arctic Ocean. Northern African countries with rivers emptying in to the Med, would be flowing north, though those countries are predominanty desert, so the rivers would probably not be much.\n\nThere are rivers in northern South America, in Columbia and Venezuela that would be flowing into the southern Carribean Sea on a northerly course.\n\nWith the exception of the Nile, most rivers that flow north are not in areas that attract that much attention. Afterall, how much activity is there on the Arctic Ice Pack to draw attention to frozen rivers emptying into it.\n\nIt is not a matter of more rivers flowing south, but rather most rivers THAT GET ATTENTION flow in a direction other than north. (Afterall, the Amazon River has a mostly easterly course.)
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True. It is called the coriolis effect. It causes moving objects to drift sideways on their courses. This causes hurricanes to rotate. In the Northern hemisphere, the shift is to the right, in the Southern hemisphere it is to the left.
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The tilt of the planet causes uneven heating of the Earth's surface,during the summer months,the northern hemisphere is closer to the sun,causing warm weather,as the Earth orbits the sun,it maintains this tilt,until the northern hemisphere is farther,causing cold weather.Consequentialy,when the northern hemisphere is experiencing winter,the southern hemisphere is experiencing summer and vice versa.Spring and fall are the time in between these transitions.
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I read in new scientist that there there is a certain current in the Atlantic that transports hotter ocean water from the south to the north.\n\nWhat happens here is the arctic ice will cool the temperature of the water down and it will thus flow south again.\n\nWith global warming there will be a constant flow of hot water to the north thus raising the water level there. So all places on the northern hemisphere would get affected first. \n\nI'm not too sure I got all the facts right but it has something to do with a current though.
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In the South Atlantic there is a vast area for waves to develop, and much energy, as well as thousands of miles of  fetch, unbroken by land, for them to build. The southern oceans are known for their tremendous waves. The latitudes of the 50's and 60's south  are known for their wild waters(the roaring 50's)
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One major reason is that more of the southern hemisphere is actually ocean, so it serves as more of a heat sink and keeps the temperatures more stable.\n\nIn addition to that, if you look a globe, you'll notice that the majority of the land in the southern hemisphere (except for Antarctica) is a lot closer to the Equator than the land in the northern hemisphere is.  On most maps you don't really notice it as much because they don't bother printing the whole strip of landless ocean and a lot of Antarctica.\n\nUpdate:  In response to itchybeard below, the Earth's perihelion (closest approach to the sun) occurs in January (this year it was January 4, at about 3 pm GMT).  Thus we are actually closer to the sun during the northern hemisphere's winter, not during the southern hemisphere's.  This would be reason why the summers in the southern hemisphere tend to be hotter than ours, but not why our winters are colder.
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well, as you know australia is in the southern hemisphere, "down under".  this means that they are on the underside of the earth, so instead of gravity pulling things downward, it pulls things upwards.  when australians flush a toilet, it opens a valve in the toilet and the gravity sucks sewage out of the pipes and it sprays all over the bathroom.  this is actually how we get rid of our sewage here in the northern hemisphere.  this is possibly also why the australian tourism economy has been struggling lately.  poor guys.\n\njust kidding.  (:\n\ni believe you are talking about the "direction" of the flush - how in the norther hemisphere the water circulates clockwise, but in the southern hemisphere the water circulates counterclockwise.\n\nwell, it turns out this is a total urban legend.  it's not true, and you can go to australia to check it yourself.  toilets in both the northern and southern hemisphere circulate both ways, totally regardless of where you are.  read more about it here:\nhttp://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm\nhttp://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html\n\npeople often chalk this up to the "coriolis effect" which says that moving objects experience a "twisting" force that depends on your distance from the equator.  the coriolis effect IS real, but it is very weak, and only has measurable effect over long distances and very small particles.  it DOES cause storms to rotate in different directions, for example, but your sink is simply too small and too fast for it to make a difference.\n\nso what DOES cause your toilet to rotate in one direction or the other?  it all has to do with small details of how your toilet is built, and the biggest effect has to do with how the water runs into the bowl.  \n\nmost toilets squirt the water into the bowl at an angle, to set up this spinning effect, which gives you a better flush.  however which direction this angle points is totally arbitrary, and if you change the direction the water runs the other way.\n\nso, sorry if this comes as bad news, but what you've been told just isn't true.
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It's also true with water going down the drain. It goes the other way in the southern hemisphere, because of the earths rotation.