hemisphere

«hemisphere» in Mova's school dictionary: Half of a sphere (a ball shape) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hemisphere, hemispheres)

meaning for a pupil

1) Half of a sphere (a ball shape). tree →

2) Half of the Earth: the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere (divided by the equator), or the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. tree →

3) One of the two halves of the brain (left hemisphere, right hemisphere). tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography, the equator splits the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere (USA, Canada, UK, Ireland) and the Southern Hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand); seasons are opposite, so when it is summer in one, it is winter in the other. In maths, a hemisphere is a 3-D shape: half a sphere, with one flat circular face and one curved face. In science, the brain has two hemispheres. Phrases: Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, left/right hemisphere.

examples

• Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere. tree →
• Canada and the UK are in the Northern Hemisphere. tree →
• When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere. tree →
• The equator divides the Earth into two hemispheres. tree →
• A hemisphere has one flat face and one curved face. tree →
• Cut an orange in half and you have two hemispheres. tree →
• The brain has a left and a right hemisphere. tree →

note

«Hemi-» means half, so hemisphere = half a sphere. Maths: a hemisphere has 2 faces (1 flat circle, 1 curved), 1 curved edge and 0 vertices. Its volume is half that of the whole sphere.

In the corpora

• In the northern hemisphere, the height of the Pole Star above the horizon in degrees is roughly equal to your latitude.
• About two-thirds of the Earth's land lies in the northern hemisphere.
• Polar bears live only in the Arctic and wild penguins only in the southern hemisphere, so they never meet in nature.
• Australian children have Christmas in summer because in December the southern hemisphere leans towards the Sun.
• The equator divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hemisphere» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.