What is the Tropic of Capricorn?

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What is the Tropic of Capricorn?

Answer 1

The Tropic of Capricorn, or Southern tropic, is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. It lies 23° 26′ 22″ south of the Equator, and marks the most southerly latitude at which the sun can appear directly overhead at noon. This event occurs at the December solstice, when the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun to its maximum extent.

The northern hemisphere equivalent of the Tropic of Capricorn is the Tropic of Cancer. Schoolchildren are sometimes taught to remember which tropic is which by the fact that Cancer has the letter N, for North, in the middle of it. Alternatively: corns grow on the feet (i.e. the lower part of the body, corresponding to the southern hemisphere). Latitudes south of the Tropic of Capricorn are in the Southern Temperate Zone. The region north of the Tropic of Capricorn and south of the Tropic of Cancer is known as the Tropics.

Answer 2

23 degrees south of the equator

Answer 3

an imaginary line that goes around the earth 23.5 degrees south of the equator

Answer 4

The sun is directly overhead the Tropic of Capricorn at noon on the December Solstice, around December 21-22.

Answer 5

It is an invisible line cutting across the earth at 23 degrees South of the equator,

During the Autumn equinox, the sun is directly overhead it and all the places under it.

Autumn equinox is at 23 September every year.