Tropical design

Question 1

Describe Solar Geometry

Answer 1

Understanding the movement of the sun and computing for shading

Question 2

It is the human solutions towards problems inclined with nature

Answer 2

Technology

Question 3

What do you call an all glass building situated in a hot and looming dessert plain?

Answer 3

Inneficiency

Question 4

It is the shape of the orbit of the Earth around the sun

Answer 4

Ellipse

Question 5

As the earth revolves around the sun, the distance varies around_______ percent

Answer 5

3.3

Question 6

The cause of different seasons around the globe?

Answer 6

Uneven distribution of continents around the globe.

Question 7

T or F: The southern Hemisphere contains more land than the northern hemisphere.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Month of Aphelion

Answer 8

July

Question 9

It is the time where the Earth is most distant from the sun

Answer 9

Aphelion

Question 10

Explain the process why seasons are caused

Answer 10

During the Aphelion, the northern half of the earth is tilted towards the sun, heating up most of the land, in comparison to January where as the earth is closer but heating up only the vast oceans.

Question 11

It is the event where the day is almost as equal as the night

Answer 11

Equinox

Question 12

Date of spring equinox?

Answer 12

March 21

Question 13

Date of Fall equinox

Answer 13

September 21

Question 14

Date of summer solstice

Answer 14

June 21

Question 15

Date of winter solstice

Answer 15

December 21

Question 16

It is called the longest periods of either day or night

Answer 16

solstice

Question 17

It is called the longest day

Answer 17

Summer solstice

Question 18

Longest night

Answer 18

Winter solstice

Question 19

The vertical angle at which the suns rays strikes the earth

Answer 19

Altitude angle

Question 20

Early astronomers who stated that “The earth revolves around the sun rather than being the center of the universe.

Answer 20

Galileo and Copernicus

Question 21

It describes the arc of the sun across the sky in relation to an earth-bound observer at a given latitude and time.

Answer 21

Skydome

Question 22

The part of the sky dome through which the most powerful rays enter

Answer 22

Solar window

Question 23

Solar window timeline?

Answer 23

9am to 3pm

Question 24

Commonly used building envelope to prevent or control the irradiation of a surface

Answer 24

Overhangs

Question 25

It is the angle of the sun above the horizon

Answer 25

Altitude angle

Question 26

It is also known as the bearing angle , it is the angle of the sun’s projection unto the ground

Answer 26

Azimuth angle