climatic zone
- noun
- /klaɪˈmætɪk zoʊn/
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zona climática
- Knowing the climatic zones of the world can help farmers choose the right crops to grow.
- different climatic zones
Examples
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The Sahara is characterized by its arid climatic zone, where little rainfall occurs.
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Deforestation in the lowlands of Costa Rica has caused the country's cloud forests to become drier, essentially shifting the climatic zones uphill.
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Together with the 49 soil types, this results in a wide variety of ecological and climatic zones.
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Partly due to its very mountainous nature, there are 12 different climatic zones.
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For example, particular tree species have limited rates at which they can spread naturally into changing and more suitable climatic zones, due to limited seed dispersal and growth rates.
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"We want to develop an areawide management strategy so that when the moths come out in the spring, they never make it to the next climatic zone," Lingren concludes.
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The two greatest rivers of southwest Asia, the Euphrates and the Tigris, originate in a particular topographic and climatic zone and end up in quite a different one.
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Because most methods for determining the patterns of genetic variation require the availability of well-equipped laboratories, however, nearly all populational studies have focused on species from temperate climatic zones.
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A tree species may persist through millions of years, surviving periodic floods and infernos, droughts, cycles of insects and disease, even the shifting of climatic zones.
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In this hot and humid climatic zone, rainfall averages between 1,200 and 1,700 millimeters annually (CONAP 1996, 12).
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Synonyms
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A region with a certain kind of weather, for example warm or cold
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A large area of land or water with its own climate, plants, and animals
A region of the Earth with a similar climate or position on the globe
How Warm
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a region defined by climate' is directly and compositionally derived from 'climatic' (pertaining to climate) + 'zone' (a region). This is a straightforward adjective + noun combination following common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
The word climatic zone comes from the image of wide 'belts' around the Earth. Here climatic means the usual weather and zone means a 'belt' or area, so a climatic zone is a large area that shares the same kind of weather.