Tropical Wet

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Tropical Wet

• Temperature - Always hot, more than 80? coolest
  no lower than 64 ?
• Precipitation - Daily rain 80 year
• Seasons little change in temp over a year
  mainly 1 season
• Other-days start off sunny, gets cloudy rains
  most every afternoon, no frost or freezing
• Location near equator, central south america,
  Africa, SE Asia

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Tropical Wet Dry

• Temperature cooler in dry season, warmer in wet
  season
• Precipitation - Rainy summer, dry winter, less
  than tropical wet
• Seasons rainy season in summer, dry in winter
• Other most all rain occurs in the wet season
• Location nearer Tropic of Can/Cap, Africa, S.
  Central America, parts of Asia, Australia

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Semiarid

• Temperature Hot summers, mild winters 43 ?
  range
• Precipitation - 16 year
• Seasons summers hot, winters mild to cold
• Other some areas have snow, some are most
  productive agricultural land in the world
• Location all over the world, interior of
  continents surrounding deserts

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Desert

• Temperature - Some hot Sahara/Arabian
• Cool/cold in mid lats
• Precipitation - Less than 10 year
• Seasons can be hot or cool/cold to 32
• Other categorized by rainfall, hot low humidity
  high temp, cool/coldmid latitudes in rain
  shadow
• Location Middle Latitudes, covers 12 of
  Earths surface

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Mediterranean

• Temperature - Hot summer, mild winter
• Precipitation - Rainy winters 17 inches, dry
  summer
• Seasons summer hot dry, winter cool rainy
• Other support dense population and rich
  agriculture
• Location West coasts in middle latitudes,
  Mediterranean Sea also along west coast of the US
  Australia

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Marine West Coast

• Temperature - Oceans keep temperatures moderate
• Precipitation even throughout the year
• Seasons temp fairly constant all year b/c of
  ocean winds
• Other cloudy, foggy, damp
• Location close to ocean, west coasts of US
  Canada and most of western Europe

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Humid Subtropical

• Temperature - Long, humid summers, mild to cool
  short winters
• Precipitation - Year round rain
• Seasons all but not great variety
• Other hurricanes in late summer fall, climate
  good for crops and rice
• Location SE US, Florida, coastal China

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Humid Continental

• Temperature - Four distinct seasons
• Precipitation 32 great variety but abundant in
  spring summer
• Seasons 4 seasons large change b/t summer
  winter
• Other where polar tropical air masses meet
• Location middle latitudes interiors of the
  northern hemisphere continents

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Subarctic

• Temperature - -14 ? to 60 ?, huge variations b/t
  summer winter
• Precipitation - Steady precip, rain snow
• Seasons short summerscool, long winterscold,
  below freezing 5-8 months
• Other covered with evergreen forests called
  taiga, temp. range is larger than any other
  climate
• Location Canada, Russia, Scandinavia, Alaska

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Tundra

• Temperature - -10 ? to 41 ? Less than 1 month of
  summer, permafrost
• Precipitation - Less than 15 year
• Seasons winter is long/severe, summer is only a
  few weeks w/ temps around 40 ?
• Other flat, treeless lands w/ permafrost, long
  dark winters
• Location ring around the Arctic Ocean high
  latitudes

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Ice Cap

• Temperature - Cold, rarely above freezing ,
  coldest -128.6 ?
• Precipitation - Less than 10 year
• Seasons give me a break
• Other snow, ice, called polar deserts
• Location North South polar ice caps

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Highland

• Temperature - Cool to cold
• -2 ? to 50 ?
• Precipitation - Varies up to 9
• Seasons same season as climate region they are
  in
• Other climate varies w/ latitude/elevation
  topography, highercolder
• Location High mountains, Rockies, Alps,
  Himalayas, Mt. Fuji, Mt. Kilimanjaro