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... - tion for the whole year . They may well be called the winter zones , for their summer is so short and cool that the heat is insufficient for most forms of vegeta- tion , especially for trees . The temperate zones are 20 CLIMATE.
... - tion for the whole year . They may well be called the winter zones , for their summer is so short and cool that the heat is insufficient for most forms of vegeta- tion , especially for trees . The temperate zones are 20 CLIMATE.
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Considered Especially in Relation to Man Robert DeCourcy Ward. tion , especially for trees . The temperate zones are intermediate between the tropical and the polar in the matter of annual amount and of annual variation of insolation ...
Considered Especially in Relation to Man Robert DeCourcy Ward. tion , especially for trees . The temperate zones are intermediate between the tropical and the polar in the matter of annual amount and of annual variation of insolation ...
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... trees do not grow , and man has to adjust himself to the conditions in a very special way . The two polar caps are not symmetrical as regards the latitudes which they occupy . The presence of ex- tended land masses in the high northern ...
... trees do not grow , and man has to adjust himself to the conditions in a very special way . The two polar caps are not symmetrical as regards the latitudes which they occupy . The presence of ex- tended land masses in the high northern ...
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... trees and the limits of agricul- ture . Near this line are found the last groups of trees in the tundras . A temperature of 50 ° for four months marks the limit of the oak , and also closely coincides with the limits of wheat ...
... trees and the limits of agricul- ture . Near this line are found the last groups of trees in the tundras . A temperature of 50 ° for four months marks the limit of the oak , and also closely coincides with the limits of wheat ...
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... trees and hardy cereals grow . The polar belts are , as a whole , outside the limits of tree growth . Another suggestion has been made by Gebelin , who has proposed to select , as limits of the temperate zone , certain visible ...
... trees and hardy cereals grow . The polar belts are , as a whole , outside the limits of tree growth . Another suggestion has been made by Gebelin , who has proposed to select , as limits of the temperate zone , certain visible ...
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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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