Tropics are the geographic region of the Earth between the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere at approximately 23 ° 30 '(23,5 °) north latitude, and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at 23 ° 30' (23,5 °) south latitude .
Tropics - Africa-unique lifestyle
This Tropics - Africa-unique lifestyle area includes all or part of the land on which the sun shines directly at 90 ° at least once during the solar year. (In temperate zones, north of the Tropic of Cancer and south of the Tropic of Capricorn, the sun never reaches an altitude of 90 ° or directly on them.) The name "tropics" comes from the Greek τρόπος, which means "turning". This is because the apparent position of the sun moves between the two tropics, in the period that determines the average length of the year.
Tropics - Africa-unique lifestyle
Tropical plants and animals species originating in the tropics. Tropical is also sometimes used word in a general sense for a tropical climate - a climate that is warm and humid throughout the year. Tropical word is also often used for plants with sense of lush vegetation. However, there are places in the tropics that are anything but not "tropical" in this sense. Such sites can have alpine tundra and snow-capped peaks, including Mauna Kea, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Andes south to Chile and Argentina.
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