NOUN
- the part of the Earth's surface between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer or between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by temperate climate
How To Use Temperate Zone In A Sentence
- The cyprinoids, which are absent from South America, dominate the freshwaters of tropical Asia and the north-temperate zone of Eurasia.
- The central region, lying beneath the track of the sun, was termed the torrid zone; the two regions between the tropics and the polar circles were termed the temperate zones, and the remaining parts, between the porlar circles and the poles, the frigid zones. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
- Most aquarium plants come from tropical and subtropical areas, with a few from the warmer parts of the temperate zone.
- Although the number of plant species in the Arctic is low in general, individual communities of small arctic plants have a diversity similar to or higher than those of boreal and temperate zones: there can be up to 25 species per square decimeter. Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic
- Somewhere, an air-conditioning unit throbbed softly, maintaining the climate of a cool-temperate zone.
- Here, within the same geographical limits of the north temperate zone, and with the far simpler scheme of surface relief which characterizes the New World, we have civilizations as different as those of the Eskimo, the Algonkin peoples of the coniferous forests, the Huron and Iroquois of the deciduous hardwoods, horticultural Muscogeans in the south-east, buffalo-hunting Sioux on the prairie, predatory Apaches and The Unity of Civilization
- The town belong to the north temperate zone continental monsoon climate with four distinct seasons.
- The birches (Betula L.) are common trees and shrubs of the boreal and north temperate zones of the Northern hemisphere.
- Beijing, in the temperate zone, has a relatively lower humidity than the other two cities.
- The range of this bird extends across the boreal and temperate zones of Europe and Asia as far as China.