zone
A girdle; a cincture., One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature., The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis., A band or stripe extending around a body., A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth., A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections., Circuit; circumference., To girdle; to encircle.
sphere
Not normally on its surface.
Sphere
Since a "face" is usually defined as a flat area and no area of a sphere is flat, the answer would be NO. It is possible to place two planes tangent to the surface of the sphere and parallel to each other, but each plane will only touch the surface of the sphere at a single point rather than coinciding with a "face".
A circle or a sphere
A steradian is the solid angle subtended at the centre of a sphere by radius r by a portion of the surface of the sphere which has area r2.
Not necessarily. The Tropic of Cancer, and the Tropic of Capricorn, imaginary lines on the surface of the earth (an approximate sphere), are parallel but they are not coplanar. You could draw similar lnes on a proper sphere that were parallel but not coplanar.
Almost half.
=it is mainly the lower portion of the stratosphere.=
None because it's a circular shape.