[GEOG 102] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 16 pages long Study Guide!
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Tropics can be found usually in places where the water is the warmest in the world. A tropical wave located midway between the lesser antilles islands and the coast of africa on sunday afternoon was headed west at 15-20mph, and has the potential to become a dangerous storm in the caribbean later this week. The westerly winds that carry hurricanes to the philippines cannot bring hurricanes to trinidad because it near to the equator. Arguably, tropical climates influence the lives of the people in the tropics more than midlatitude climates affect the lives of the people who live there. People who live in the tropics have subsistence living, therefore they need rain to survive. They shape their lives around the rain season. Ex: los angeles, (socal) have more water here than in the caribbean or. India and yet there is a persistent drought in california. The area that lies between the tropic of cancer and capricorn. (astronomical definition)
