Temperate Zone

American  

noun

Geography.

1. the part of the earth's surface lying between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the Northern Hemisphere or between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle in the Southern Hemisphere, and characterized by having a climate that is warm in the summer, cold in the winter, and moderate in the spring and fall.

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Temperate Zone British  

noun

1. those parts of the earth's surface lying between the Arctic Circle and the tropic of Cancer and between the Antarctic Circle and the tropic of Capricorn

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Temperate Zone Scientific  

1. Either of two regions of the Earth of intermediate latitude, the North Temperate Zone, between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer, or the South Temperate Zone, between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn.

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Temperate Zone

Today Antarctica is impassable to higher plants or insects, but fossil evidence shows that 10 million years ago, it had a temperate climate and was covered with forests characteristic of the modern South Temperate Zone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other scientists are observing the advance or retreat of smaller glaciers in Temperate Zone mountains.

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In the early 19th century, for instance, it was known that large areas of low atmospheric pressure sweep across the North Temperate Zone roughly from west to east and are apt to bring stormy weather.

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By far the most crucial issue involves Temperate Zone producers, notably Australia, Canada and New Zealand, traditionally Britain's biggest food suppliers.

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Stretching, as do these plains, across a large portion of the South Temperate Zone, they present great varieties of climate.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles