Tropics and polar zones
What percentage of the Earth's surface lies in the tropical, temperate, and polar zones?
Tropics border individual zones at 23°27' and polar circles at 66°33'.
Tropics border individual zones at 23°27' and polar circles at 66°33'.
Correct answer:
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- algebra
- expression of a variable from the formula
- solid geometry
- sphere
- surface area
- spherical cap
- planimetrics
- right triangle
- triangle
- basic functions
- percentages
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