tropics

     

The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth where the sun passes through the zenith twice uring the solar year (once as the sun appears to go north and once as it appears to go south). At the limits, called the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, this occurs once at the relevant solstice.

Trivia about tropics

  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA.) The museum has 4,000 handcrafted glass flowers; created from 1887 to 1936, their accuracy allowed study in Boston of flowers from these regions, between 23 27' north & south
  • I daydreamed in the geography class about this warm region defined as lying between two famous lines of latitude
  • There are lines of latitude called this of Cancer & this of Capricorn

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