what is equatorial region ?

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its description with respect to temperature , climate ,rainfall , vegetation

Answer 1

The tropics or the equatorial regions, are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator (parallel 0) and limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere, at approximately 23°26' (23.4°) N latitude, and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at 23°26' (23.4°) S latitude. This region is also referred to as the tropical zone and the torrid zone.

This area includes all the areas of the Earth where the sun reaches a point directly overhead at least once during the solar year. (In the temperate zones, north of the Tropic of Cancer and south of the Tropic of Capricorn, the sun never reaches an altitude of 90° or directly overhead.) The word "tropics" comes from Greek tropos meaning "turn", because the apparent position of the Sun oscillates between the two tropics with a period that defines the average length of a year.

Tropical plants and animals are those species native to the tropics. Tropical is also sometimes used in a general sense for a tropical climate, a climate that is warm to hot and moist year-round, often with the sense of lush vegetation. However, there are places in the tropics that are anything but "tropical" in this sense, with even alpine tundra and snow-capped peaks, including Mauna Kea, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and the Andes as far south as the northernmost parts of Chile and Argentina. Places in the tropics which are drier with low humidity are such as the Sahara Desert and Central Africa and Northern Australian Outback.

Tropical ecosystems may consist of rainforests, dry deciduous forests, spiny forests, desert and other habitat types. There are often significant areas of biodiversity and species endemism present particularly in rainforests and dry deciduous forests. Some examples of important biodiversity and/or high endemism ecosystems are: Costa Rican rainforests, Madagascar dry deciduous forests, Waterberg Biosphere of South Africa and eastern Madagascar rainforests. Often the soils of tropical forests are low in nutrient content making them quite vulnerable to slash-and-burn techniques, which are sometimes an element of shifting cultivation agricultural systems-.

Answer 2

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Between the tropics of Cancer & Capricorn. Countries: Indonesia, North half of Australia, Fiji, Solomon Is., Papuanugini, Hawaii Is, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Palau, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Combodia, Southern half of Burma, Bangladesh and India, Southern Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Djibouti, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Northern half of Bot`swana and Namibia, Congo (Kinshasa), Dem. Rep. of Congo (Brazzaville), Central African rep., Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Nigeria, Sudan, Chad, Benin, Dahomey, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde Is., Senegal, Gambia, Southern Mali, Brazil, Fr.Guiana, Suriname, Gayana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Northern Paraguay, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Southern Mexico, Cuba and all Caribbean Islands.

Answer 3

Equatorial region(tropical region) is the belt where extreme climate(very hot) is experienced.Since it is very hot rainfall starts at about 4'o clock.The vegetation mostly is of evergreen forest due to continuous rain.

Answer 4

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what is equatorial region ?
its description with respect to temperature , climate ,rainfall , vegetation

Answer 5

equatorial region is the area around the equator....equator is the imaginary line dividing earth in to half horizontally....

the temperature is a bit highin these areas...tropical climate...the best example is Sri Lanka..where im from....if you can go to few webpages about Sri Lanka and search about few forests like " sinharaja" im sure you can get all you need

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Answer 6

the region is near the equator . it lies between the tropics which are 23and half degrees north and south

Answer 7

The area between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

Answer 8

Ecuador, obviously.

Answer 9

near the equator