tropics
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- noun
- /ˈtrɑpɪks/
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trópicos
- If you go to the tropics and look in the mangrove swamp crawling over the mud, you will see strange little fish like this mud skippers.
Humans can live in any ecological niche in the world, from the tropics to the poles.
- Humans can live in any ecological niche in the world, from the tropics to the poles.
- Because let's say, for example, you go into a really biodiverse area in the tropics.
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And in the tropics you don't get that so much.
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Green or ripe plantains can be fried, baked, or boiled, providing people on the island and other areas of the Tropics with a valuable source of carbohydrates and minerals.
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And in the tropics, for sites in the tropics, that figure looks like this.
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And already in the tropics, many crops are heat stressed.
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There's many other reasons why the tropics are hard to farm.
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And for this video, we are in the tropics of Tulum, Mexico.
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Humans can live in any ecological niche in the world, from the tropics to the poles.
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Even people in the tropics—those living in regions between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn—would be bundled up.
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The peacock mite (Tuckerella sp.), a beautiful but important pest on citrus in the Tropics, is shown on tea stem.
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The Amazon rainforest is located in the tropics, where temperatures are consistently warm throughout the year.
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The part of Earth near the equator that is hot all year
A very hot area of the Earth between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
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Etymology
The word tropics comes from a Greek word tropikos, from trope meaning 'turn', and it is the same root as tropical. Long ago people used it for the two lines where the sun seems to 'turn' in the sky, so the 'tropics' are the warm region between those lines.