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Question
Give a geographical reason for lines of latitude carve out the heat zones of the earth.
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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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