North Temperate Zone

noun

the part of the earth's surface between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle.

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Each autumn in the deciduous trees and shrubs of the North Temperate Zone, rows of cells at the base of the leaf stem die.

Our climate is good, for we are in the North Temperate Zone.

Every man of genius the world has ever produced has come from a little belt of land in the North Temperate Zone.

The North Temperate Zone will never be able to compete with the tropics in the special products of the tropics.

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