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Question
Give reasons for the following :
Tropical latitudes are the hottest part of the’Earth.
Solution
Tropical latitudes are the hottest part of the Earth because the belt between Tropic of cancer and Capricorn is the migration belt of the Sun in which the Sun remains overhead on one or another place which naturally receives the maximum heat of Sun.
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