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... crops in the temperate zones - The deserts -Mountains - Climate and weather : some mental effects - Climate and weather and military operations -Railroads - Transportation by water - Various effects of the weather . - CHAPTER X. THE ...
... crops in the temperate zones - The deserts -Mountains - Climate and weather : some mental effects - Climate and weather and military operations -Railroads - Transportation by water - Various effects of the weather . - CHAPTER X. THE ...
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... crops , climate and industry , climate and health , are subjects of vital interest to man . No other science concerns man more closely in his daily life . Literature of Climatology . Scientific climatology is based upon numerical ...
... crops , climate and industry , climate and health , are subjects of vital interest to man . No other science concerns man more closely in his daily life . Literature of Climatology . Scientific climatology is based upon numerical ...
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... crop is also affected by the climate . Continental Climate . Marine climate is equable ; continental , is severe . The annual temperature ranges increase , as a whole , with increasing distance from the ocean ; the regular diurnal ...
... crop is also affected by the climate . Continental Climate . Marine climate is equable ; continental , is severe . The annual temperature ranges increase , as a whole , with increasing distance from the ocean ; the regular diurnal ...
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... crops ; the next may give a poor harvest . From the point of view of temperature , these zones may be considered in three divisions : ( 1 ) the sub- tropical , ( 2 ) the " temperate " latitudes , and ( 3 ) the sub - polar . The annual ...
... crops ; the next may give a poor harvest . From the point of view of temperature , these zones may be considered in three divisions : ( 1 ) the sub- tropical , ( 2 ) the " temperate " latitudes , and ( 3 ) the sub - polar . The annual ...
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... crops , and the resulting lowered vitality of the people in consequence of in- sufficient food , may easily swell the death - rate . Nor can these tropical death - rates properly be compared with the death - rates noted under different ...
... crops , and the resulting lowered vitality of the people in consequence of in- sufficient food , may easily swell the death - rate . Nor can these tropical death - rates properly be compared with the death - rates noted under different ...
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Africa altitude ANNUAL MARCH Antarctic anticyclonic Arctic Arctic circle Asia chiefly civilisation climatology cloudiness cold colder continental climate continents cool crops curve cyclonic damp decrease deserts disease distribution districts diurnal drier dry season earth's surface east eastern coasts effect equator equatorial Europe favourable forests Greenland heat higher latitudes humidity important increasing India insolation irrigation islands isotherm land latitude circle less lowlands malaria margins maxima maximum mean annual mean temperature Meteorology migration monsoon months mountain climates natives natural North America north polar northern oceans perature period plateaus polar climate polar zones pole population pressure prevailing Province rainfall rainy season regions result savannas sea-level Siberia snow southern hemisphere steppes storms sub-tropical sub-tropical belts summer sunspot temperature tion trade wind trees tropics tude tundra usually vegetation warm warmer weather west coast westerlies western yellow fever
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Page 273 - ... to the vigorous employment of all his faculties. A more economical Nature yields nothing, except to the sweat of his brow; every gift on her part is a recompense for effort on his.