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The equator is an imaginary line that runs around the middle section of the earth. It is hotter there than at the north and south poles because the tilt of the earth on its axis causes the equatorial region to receive more direct sun rays than the poles.

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At the Equator temperatures are much hotter except at high altitudes where air is cooled by the work done in lifting it over mountains, and at the poles they are much much colder.

Also, the annual range of temperature is negligible at the equator and often very high near the poles because day length is constant at the equator and ranges from continuous daylight to astronomical polar night at the poles. The most extreme annual ranges of temperature are not at the poles where maritime influences are strong (Antarctica being very strongly cooled in summer by the Antarctic Drift) but in the hypercontinental regions of inland Siberia and Manchuria where the differential heating of Eurasia and the Pacific Ocean causes a wind reversal to warm summers and chill winters.

The temperatures are hotter at the Equator because the sun is more direct than that of the poles.

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The equatorial regions on Earth experience about 12 hours of direct sunlight every day of the year.

At the poles, there is one sunset and one sunrise per year, which means that for six months, there is no direct sun at the poles.

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Because around the equator it is always a high temperature so it would only be summer so why say "Its Summer" all year long

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