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**__How far from the equator__**
 * Sydney, Australia is a amazing city!!!!! When it's Christmas around the world people in Sydney can have a barbecue on the beach.**
 * **This city is 33.8 degrees south of the equator, this is Sydney's geographic latatitude.**

**__﻿Oceans and how it effects the city__** **__Direct sunlight__** **__Weather and why__**
 * **Sydney is by a East Australian Current which brings warm water down the coast from the Coral Sea, this makes the water temperature warmer. This current varys but are stronger in the summer and weaker in the winter.**
 * **In January my city gets 14 hours of sunlight per day, this is because it is tilted towards the sun and as the earth revolves it sees the sun sooner than people who live in Tokyo because of this tilt. Sydney enjoys more than 300 days of sun, I'd like to be there in Winter.**
 * **The weather of Sydney can change, the hottest month is Feburary at a high of 79F and a low of 66F, and July is the coolest month at a high of 62F and a low of 42F(This is cold for Austraila.) The wettest season is March averaging about 6.4in and the driest season being July getting about 2.2in of precipitation. It is coldest in July because as the northren reigon is having summer the sun is faceing it directly, but Sydney is facing downward getting sun but not enough to make it hot in it's July. Sydney is warmest in Feburary because as the northren hemisphere is having winter, facing away from the sun. While Sydney is leaning towards the sun so forth having summer in Janurary.**
 * __ Climate and Differences __**
 * ** ﻿ ﻿Our two cities have nothing with the climate in common. Our driest sesons is July(Sydney) **
 * and August(Tokyo) **
 * which is the clostest we share. **
 * which is the clostest we share. **
 * which is the clostest we share. **
 * __Why__ **

**__Longness of seasons__** __** Seasons **__ **__Landforms__** media type="youtube" key="zKX4sT5tyV8" width="425" height="350"
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 * ** ﻿Our cities have totally different temputures because of the tilt of the earth and the northren and southren hemisphere. Our hottest month being totally oppsite Tokyo's being August and Sydney's being Feburary and our clostest months being Janurary(Tokyo) and July(Sydney). The tilt of the earth and the sun make this possible. **
 * ** ﻿Winter in Sydney starts on June 1 through Aug. 31, and summer from December 1 through Febuary 28. This means Fall starts on March 1 through May 31 and Spring from Semptember 1 through November 30. The earth is tilted on a 23.5 degree angle so while the northern region is having winter, Sydney is tilted towrds the sun making it warm so forth having summer. Then when the northernhemisphere is having summer Sydney is titled down away from the sun causing it to be cold, but not to cold since Sydneys is near the Tropic of Capricorn.﻿﻿ **
 * __** ﻿ **__** Winter weather gets a high of 63F,so it is not that cold. Sydney only gets around 11.4in of percipitation each winter. Winter is warm enough that you go go walking everydday of winter and go on a boat. ﻿﻿ **
 * ** Spring can get a high of 71F and 10.4in of percipitation all together. Spring feels fine and sunny in Sydney, it's even warm enough to go surfing! **
 * ** Summer weather can be really hot getting up to an average of 78F and around 13.4in of percipitation. Sydney in the summer is very hot!!! This means beaches are crowded along with picnic grounds and theme parks! **
 * ** Fall temputures can be average 73F and can get 15.6in of percipitation!! It's still feels ok to go to the beach, but it is generally cooler. **
 * **Sydney has a basin which is called the Sydney Basin. This basin has near horizontal sandstones and shales of Permian to Triassic age. The basin was made when the earths crust expanded. The upper parts of the basin were covered in quartz sandstone by many extremely large rivers, the headwaters for these rivers lay hundreds or even thousand km away!**
 * **The Austrailan** [|**outback**]**is a big part of Australia. This outback is made up of the Simpson Desert, Ayers Rock, The Olgas, and Kings Canyon(Deserts). The Simpson Desert takes up 200,000 square kilometers of Australia. This desert gets less than 400 millmeters of rain each year!! Ayers rock is simply a big rock at the height of 1,100ft tall. The coordinates of this rock is 25.344722 South and 131.0325 East. Next is The Olgas, it is made up of 36 massive doam shaped rocks. The Olgas covers 23 and a half square miles, this is made up of sedimentary rock, which contains many different types of stones. Finally Kings Canyon comes last, this canyon is 270 meters high.**
 * __ ﻿Facts __**
 * ** The Sydney Opera House is amazing part of Sydney __ ﻿ __ ! They had a contest for a person to design the Opera House, this was won by a Danish architect, Jorn Utzon. The Sydney Opera House is 600ft long and 393ft wide. It had 10 sail-like "shells," these shells were made so they looked like they were cut out of a sphere. The roof has 1,056,056 glazed granite tiles, these were imported from Sweden. On October 20,1973 Queen Elizabeth ll officially opened the Opera House. **
 * ** Some of the many animals that are native to Australia are Dingo, Emu, Kangaroo, Koala, Kookaburra, Fairy Penguin, Platypus, Tasmanian Devil, Wombat, Cape Barron Goose, Cockatoo, and Tasmanian Pademelon! My favorite, the Fairy Penguin, it only weights 2.2lbs!!! **
 * **Australia is known for it's fresh food, like seafood, world class cheese, local fruits, lamb and beef. These include King Island cream, Sydney rock oysters, Bowen mangeos, Coffin Bay scallops, Tasmanian salmon, and illabo milk-fed lamb. A native plant are the Eucalyptus.**
 * ** The Sydney Harbor Bridge is 139 meters above the Sydney Harbor. This is a special bridge because YOU CAN CLIMB UP IT!!!! This climb takes 3 and a half hours! The bridge took about 8 and a half years to complete, it opened on March 19th 1932. **

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