Social science enrichment

activity

TOPIC
COLD
WEATHER/CLIMATE
WHAT IS COLD SEASON OR
WINTER SEASON?..

WINTER IS THE COLDEST SEASON OF THE

YEAR IN THE POLARAND TEMPERATE ZONE.
IT OCCURS AFTER AUTUMN AND BEFORE
SPRING EACH YEAR.WINTER IS CAUSED BY
THE AXIS OF EARTH IN THAT HEMISPHERE
BEING ORIENTEDD AWAY FROM THE SUN.
DIFFERENT CULTURES DEFINE DIFFERENT
DATES AS THE START OF WINTERS AND
SOME USE A DEFINATION BASED ON
WEATHER.
HUMANS AND WINTERS
 HUMANS ARE TOO SENSITIVE TO COLD
WEATHER OR LOW TEMPRATURE
 SOMME PROBLEMS
 HYPOTHERMIA ,SNOW BLINDNESS
AND INFLUENZA ETC….
 IN NOTHERN HEMISPHERE IT IS NOT
UNUSUAL FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE TO
DIE FROM HYPOTHERMIA
INDIAN STYLE OF
WINTER
NOW ABOVE WAS DEFINATION AND
RELATION BETWWEN HUMAN AND WINTERS
NOW LETS TALK ABOUT INDIA AND WINTER
NOW IN INDIA WINTER OCCURING FROM
DECEMBER TO FEBRUARY.THE COLDEST
MONTHS OF THE YEAR IS DECEMBER WHEN
THE AVERAGE TEMPRATURE IS 10-15’ IN
THE NORTHWEST; TEMPRATURES RISE AS
ONE OF PROCEEDS TOWARDS THE EQUATOR
PEAKING AROUND 20-25’IN MAINLAND AND
INDIA’S SOUTHEAST.
CAUSES OF WINTERS [IN
DETAIL]
THE TILT OF THE EARTH'S AXIS RELATIVE TO ITS
ORBITAL PLANE PLAYS A LARGE ROLE IN THE
FORMATION OF WEATHER. THE EARTH IS TILTED
AT AN ANGLE OF 23.44° TO THE PLANE OF ITS
ORBIT, CAUSING DIFFERENT LATITUDES TO
DIRECTLY FACE THE SUN AS THE EARTH MOVES
THROUGH ITS ORBIT. THIS VARIATION BRINGS
ABOUT SEASONS. WHEN IT IS WINTER IN THE
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, THE SOUTHERN
HEMISPHERE FACES THE SUN MORE DIRECTLY
AND THUS EXPERIENCES WARMER TEMPERATURES
THAN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. CONVERSELY,
WINTER IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE OCCURS
WHEN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE IS TILTED
MORE TOWARD THE SUN. FROM THE PERSPECTIVE
OF AN OBSERVER ON THE EARTH, THE WINTER
SUN HAS A LOWER MAXIMUM ALTITUDE IN THE
SKY THAN THE SUMMER SUN.
 Mythology

IN PERSIAN CULTURE, THE WINTER SOLSTICE IS

CALLED YALDĀ (MEANING: BIRTH) AND IT HAS
BEEN CELEBRATED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. IT
IS REFERRED TO AS THE EVE OF THE BIRTH
OF MITHRAS, WHO SYMBOLIZED LIGHT, GOODNESS
AND STRENGTH ON EARTH. GREEK
MYTHOLOGY, HADES KIDNAPPED PERSEPHONE TO
BE HIS WIFE. ZEUS ORDERED HADES TO RETURN
HER TO DEMETER, THE GODDESS OF THE EARTH
AND HER MOTHER. HOWEVER, HADES TRICKED
PERSEPHONE INTO EATING THE FOOD OF THE
DEAD, SO ZEUS DECREED THAT PERSEPHONE
WOULD SPEND SIX MONTHS WITH DEMETER AND
SIX MONTHS WITH HADES. DURING THE TIME HER
DAUGHTER IS WITH HADES, DEMETER BECAME
DEPRESSED AND CAUSED WINTER.