tropic
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El Niño forms when winds blowing over the Pacific, from the Americas toward Asia, die down, allowing warm tropic water pushed up against Asia to slosh toward the Americas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The country boasts having the highest number of hummingbirds and bats, attributed to its tropic climate and proximity to the equator.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023
The engine that powers every tropic cyclone is convection: enormous volumes of moist, rising air create a vacuum at the surface that sucks in surrounding air as spiraling winds.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023
Higher-level consumers feed on the next lower tropic levels, and so on, up to the organisms at the top of the food chain: the apex consumers.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
It was going to Halifax and the cold turn the weather had taken and his insufficient clothing made him desire a trip to the tropic Sugar Isles above all else.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Somehow, a Gaboon viper — whose home is the tropics of central and western Africa — was on the loose Monday in a Southern California neighborhood, police say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Wetter and longer monsoons are giving them more time to reproduce in the tropics.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Heat still has to move away from the tropics.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
It took millions of years before primates colonized the tropics, the study shows.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
The tropics will intoxicate you with the sweetness of frangipani flowers and lay you down with the sting of a viper, with hardly room to breathe in between.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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