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What is the name of the 2 Tropics?
The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
What are the names of the 2 tropics?
The tropic of Capricorn and the tropic of Cancer.
What r the names of the 2 tropics?
The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
What are the 2 tropics above and below the line of the earth?
They are the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn.
What is the latitude line 23 degrees 27 degrees south of the equator is the tropic of?
Question is mis-stated with 2 degree readings. If you restate it as 23 degrees 27 N, it is the Tropic of Cancer.
What line passes through (-2-2) and (-41)?
The Tropic of Capricorn passes through Botswana.
What is the five special lines of latitude?
1 Equator 2 Tropic of Cancer 3 Tropic of Capricorn 4 Artic Circle 5 Antarctic Circle
What are the other 2 lines that divide the earth?
Ok. There are three. One is called the Equator. The other two are the Tropic of Capricorn and The Tropic of Cancer. Remember these by thinking of Knee CAPs (Capricorn, is on the bottom) and Brain CANCER(Cancer is on the top) Thanks! xxoo
What is the tropic of Capricorn located on the map?
The Tropic of Capricorn is located at 23°26′22″S, while some may say it is 23 1/2 or 23.5 degrees south.(the best is 23 1/2 because they dont use decimals in degrees, they use fractions) The Tropic of Capricorn is the southernmost point at which the Sun shines directly overhead at noon at the December solstice.
How was the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn determined?
It is to indicate the start and end of the Tropics. It also shows the northernmost and southernmost points on Earth where the Sun shines directly overhead at midday in the June solstice and December solstice respectively.
Which parts of US has tropical climates?
Tropical climates are found between 0 degrees (Equator) and 23 and 1/2 degrees north or south of the Equator - (Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn). You can locate these latitudes in an atlas.
Why are the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn latitudes named after zodiac signs?
These were named approx. 2000 years ago when 1) the sun was positioned in the Cancer constellation during the June solstice, and 2) the sun was positioned in the Capricorn constellation during the December solstice.
