Climate Regions

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Climate Regions

• How does climate effect how and where people
  live?

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• Hot 80 F
• Rainfall daily/80 in yearly

Tropical Wet
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• Rainy in summer/ dry in winter
• Near Tropical Wet areas
• Grasslands cover most areas

Tropical Wet And Dry
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• 16 inches rainfall yearly
• Winters mild to cold/ Summers hot
• Productive farmland

Semiarid
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• Hot days/ cold nights
• Rain shadows

Desert
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• Mediterranean Sea
• Summer dry hot
• Winter cool rainy

Mediterranean
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• Cloudy, foggy, damp- near ocean
• Constant temp due to warm ocean currents
• Bad moods- grunge music

Marine West Coast
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• Long summers of humidity and heat
• Hurricanes

Humid Subtropical
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• Four seasons
• Arctic cold clash w/ tropical air masses
• Latitude affects temp

Humid Continental
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• Latitude elevation affect temp
• Rain shadow
• Higher elevation- lower temperature

Highlands
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• Evergreen forests
• Summers short and cool
• Winters long and cold- 8 months

Subarctic
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• Flat, treeless lands
• Permafrost
• Summer last only few weeks- 40 F

Tundra
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• Snow, ice, permanently freezing temp
• Polar deserts- less then 10 in precipitation
• 128.6 F below freezing

Ice Cap
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