Презентация на тему по английскому языку на тему климат и погода

characterized by a lack of warm summers. No month

has an average temperature of 10 °C or higher.
The tundra covers over 20% of the earth. The sun shines 24 hours in the summer, and barely ever shines at all in the winter.

a permanent or semi-permanent layer of ice.

regions because it travels a longer distance through the

atmosphere, and is spread across a larger surface area.

the globe lie between the tropics and the polar

circles. The changes in these regions between summer and winter are generally subtle, warm or cool, rather than extreme, burning hot or freezing cold. However, a temperate climate can have very unpredictable weather.

types, which are generally grouped into six categories: oceanic,

mediterranean, humid subtropical, continental, arid and semi-arid.

has rain all year with less extremes of heat

or cold.

much of northwest Europe, New Zealand and coastal North

America.

winter) are found in the warmer areas, and coniferous

trees (with needle-type leaves) are found everywhere.

and they are strongly influenced by large moving weather

systems called depressions or 'lows', and anticyclones or 'highs'.

relatively warm, but not as hot as the summer

season. These climates rarely—if ever—see frost or snow, and you can adore plants such as palm, citrus and many broadleaf evergreens flourish.

of climate typical in the tropics. Climate classification defines

it as a non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures above 18°C (64.4 °F).

Bangladesh, Mynamar (Burma), Southwestern Africa, French Guiana, northeast and

southeast Brazil.

region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation,

less than enough to support growth of most plants. Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 250 millimetres per year.

rainfall. The monsoon trough, alternately known as the intertropical

convergence zone, plays a significant role in creating Earth's tropical rain forests.

the Amazon Basin, in Nicaragua, the southern Yucatán Peninsula,

in much of equatorial Africa, in much of southeastern Asia, northern and eastern Australia.

of North America, 25% of Europe, 22% of South

America, 17% of Australia, and 3% of Africa. As a whole, 24% of the Earth's land mass is mountainous.

Summits):
Mountain Peak Continent

Height

Mount Everest Asia 8,850 m
Aconcagua South America 6,959 m
Mount McKinley North America 6,194 m
Kilimanjaro Africa 5,895 m
Mount Elbrus Europe 5,642 m
Vinson Massif Antarctica 4,897 m
Mount Kosciuszko Australia – Oceania 4,884 m