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A hemisphere is half of a spherical or almost spherical shape for example a planet or the brain.
A dome however is an architectural element having a circular plan and looks like a hollow upper half of a sphere, and constructed so as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
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What is the difference between a sphere and a hemisphere?
A sphere is a whole, and a hemisphere is a part or half.
What hemisphere is the constellation cancer seen in?
Cancer can be seen in the Northern & Southern Hemisphere between Leo and Gemini.
What is the different between a semicircle and a hemisphere?
A semicircle is half of a 2D circle. A hemisphere is half of a 3D circle called a sphere.
How many months go between when the northern hemisphere receives direct rays from the sun as opposed to the southern hemisphere?
There is no time between these. On the day before the autumnal equinox, the sun is directly overhead in the northern hemisphere (at a latitude just north of the equator). The following day, it is directly overhead in the southern hemisphere (just south of the equator). The sun goes from being overhead in the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere instantaneously, the change happening at the autumnal equinox.
When is longest day in the southern hemisphere?
The winter solstice (shortest day) of the northern hemisphere is simultaneously the longest day (the summer solstice) in the southern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere summer solstice, falls between December 20 and December 23 inclusive.
What is the difference between the northern hemisphere and the south hemisphere?
The difference is that they are on opposite sides of the earth?
What is the difference between the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere?
the north hemisphere is in the north
What is the difference between a sphere and in a hemisphere?
A hemisphere is half a sphere
What is the difference between a hemisphere and a sphere?
Sphere is whole a hemisphere is not
What is the difference between a sphere and a hemisphere?
A sphere is a whole, and a hemisphere is a part or half.
What is the difference between the east and west hemisphere?
The difference between the east and the west hemisphere is one is on the west side of the Prime Meridian and the other is on the eastern side of the Prime Meridian.
What is the difference between cities of northern and southern hemisphere?
Southern hemisphere ones are top-down under, but apart form that, there is not such a big difference.
Could the hemisphere skip a season?
No. However, the closer to the equator you are in a hemisphere the less difference there are between the seasons.
What is an example of hemisphere as an shape?
top of building/ dome
What is the difference between a dome and an arena?
an dome is bigger it is used for football and soccer. and an arena has a smaller field or court and it is used for basketball and hockey.
What are gyres and what is the difference between gyres in the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere?
Gyres flow clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. While gyres in the Southern Hemisphere flow counterclockwise.
What type of roof derives from an arch and can be shaped hemisphere?
A dome.
