The diagram illustrates how temperature zones differ by altitude ( meters-m and feet-f) between tropical and temperature mountains.
Overall, the tropical mountain has a wider range of altitude-based temperature zones compared to the temperature mountain, and contains more distinct ecological zones. Meanwhile, the permalent snow line is positioned at a much higher elevation in the tropical one, which enables a wider variety of climatic and agricultural zones to exist.
In the tropical regions, the warm zone, which is suitable for many tropical crops, stretches from sea surface to 750m. Above this lies, the temperature zone from 750m to over 1700m commonly used for coffee and cocoa plantation, followed by a zool zone extending to approximately 3100m, where grain cultivation is possible. In contrast, the temperate mountain lacks low- altitude warm and temperature zones. Its cool zone, designed for general crop growth like grains, and potatoes, stretches from water surface to around 1500m.
Continuing upward, both mountains types contain forested regions, alpine medows and permanent snow zone, but the tropical mountain supports these zones at substantially higher altitudes. The forested line is limited for broad- lead trees, which is the same in both mountains, with stretching from around 12,000f to 15,000f in the tropics, and from 5,500f to 7,500f in the temperate. Similarly, the permanent snow zone has snow line, with 16,500f – over 20,000f and 12,000f – approximately 14,000 respectitively in both mountains. Noticeably, the alpine medows is limited for pines in the tropical mountain ranging from 15,000f to 16,000; while that is limited for beoad- leaf trees in the temperature mountain stretching from 7,500f to 12,000f.