 | George Dallas Lind - Education - 1882 - 544 pages
...side of the equator and between the tropics, is called the torrid zone, and is 47° wide. The space between the tropic of cancer and the arctic circle, is called the north temperate zone. That between the tropic of Capricorn and the antarctic circle is the south, temperate zone. The temperate... | |
 | Allman and sons - 1884 - 242 pages
...perpendicular at some point, that is, exactly overhead. This is thc hettest region of the earth. 105. The space between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle...the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle is the South Temperate Zone. In the Temperate Zones the elimate is neither very het nor cold. 106. The... | |
 | Collins William sons and co, ltd - 1885 - 316 pages
...so that the day is six months long and the night six months long. Too portion of the earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle...between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle the South Temperate Zone. SUMMARY. The earth turns round its axis once in twenty-four hours. This is... | |
 | George Lund Dunnett - Military geography - 1889 - 158 pages
...Capricorn is named the Torrid Zone, and is the warmest part of the Earth's surface :• — The Belt between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle...the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle, the South Temperate Zone. The Arctic Circle encloses the North Frigid Zone. The Four Cardinal Points... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 896 pages
...in darkness; at midwinter this state of things is exactly reversed. The portion of the globe lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zono; that between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle ia the South Temperate Zone. In... | |
 | John Thornton - Physical geography - 1899 - 460 pages
...The parallel of 66^° north latitude is called the Arctic Circle. The belt of land round the earth between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone. The parallel of 66^° south latitude is called the Antarctic Circle, and the belt of land between it... | |
 | George Cecil Fry - Geography - 1908 - 442 pages
...Capricorn respectively. The portion of the earth between the Tropics is called the Torrid Zone. The portion between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle...Antarctic Circle is called the South Temperate Zone. The portions north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle are called the Frigid Zones,... | |
 | Harmon Bay Niver - Geography - 1915 - 164 pages
...during the wet season. The Temperate Zones. The belt of the sarth's surface north of the Torrid Zone, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle, is called the North Temperate Zone, and the belt south of the Torrid Zone, between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle, is called... | |
 | Henry Schuler Townsend, Elizabeth J. Marshall - Geography - 1917 - 238 pages
...day and partly night, as far north as the line called the Arctic Circle. The belt around the world between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone. The word temperate means neither very hot nor very cold. Parts of this zone have a temperate climate,... | |
 | Harmon Bay Niver - Geography - 1922 - 376 pages
...during the wet season. The Temperate Zones. The belt of the earth's surface north of the Torrid Zone, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle, is called the North Temperate Zone, and the belt south of the Torrid Zone, between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle, is called... | |
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The space between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone, and that between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle is the South Temperate Zone. 
