Temperate Zone


nounGeography.
  1. the part of the earth's surface lying between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the Northern Hemisphere or between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle in the Southern Hemisphere, and characterized by having a climate that is warm in the summer, cold in the winter, and moderate in the spring and fall.

  • Also called Variable Zone.

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How to use Temperate Zone in a sentence

  • No other State, in short, has finer facilities for growing all the cereals of the Temperate Zone than Iowa.

    Ocean to Ocean on Horseback | Willard Glazier
  • The possibilities of such an empire situated in the fairest portion of Asia's Temperate Zone are simply illimitable.

  • The whole fruit and vegetable product of the Temperate Zone is at his door, and he has but to put forth his hand and take it.

    The Fat of the Land | John Williams Streeter
  • But Mount Tacoma is single not merely because it is superbly majestic; it is an arctic island in a Temperate Zone.

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  • We of the Temperate Zone can hardly endure the heat of the tropics, and we shiver at the very thought of Lapland.

British Dictionary definitions for Temperate Zone

Temperate Zone

noun
  1. those parts of the earth's surface lying between the Arctic Circle and the tropic of Cancer and between the Antarctic Circle and the tropic of Capricorn

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Scientific definitions for Temperate Zone

Temperate Zone

  1. Either of two regions of the Earth of intermediate latitude, the North Temperate Zone, between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer, or the South Temperate Zone, between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn.

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