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Question
Give a geographical reason for the following:
Lines of latitude carve out the heat zones of the earth.
Solution
The Temperature goes on decreasing from the equator towards the poles. So the latitudinal zones are the actual heat zones of the earth, namely tropical, temperate, and polar zones.
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