Select the best answer that fills in the blanks to complete this sentence. The slopes that face to the southeast are warmer than the slopes that are facing to the northwest in these data acquired near winter solstice at 10 am in the morning. The reason why the slopes that FACE to the SOUTHEAST are warmer, is because in winter the sun comes up in the morning and is ____BLANK 1 _______. The slopes that face the northwest are steep and at 10am, they would have received ____BLANK 2 _____. The temperature difference is approximately ____BLANK 3 _____ on these two different sides of this canyon, just estimating temperatures from the key.
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