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Polar regions
Cool temperate latitudes
Subtropics
Tropical and monsoon regions
Deserts
Rainforests
Mountains
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Polar Regions
Regions with a polar climate are 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.
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Polar climate results in treeless tundra, glaciers, or
a permanent or semi-permanent layer of ice.
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Solar radiation has a lower intensity in polar
regions because it travels a longer distance through the
atmosphere, and is spread across a larger surface area.
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Temperate climate
In geography, temperate latitudes of
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.
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Within these borders there are many climate
types, which are generally grouped into six categories: oceanic,
mediterranean, humid subtropical, continental, arid and semi-arid.
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The cool temperate type of climate
has rain all year with less extremes of heat
or cold.
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Cool temperate climate
This climate is found in
much of northwest Europe, New Zealand and coastal North
America.
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Deciduous trees (which lose their leaves in
winter) are found in the warmer areas, and coniferous
trees (with needle-type leaves) are found everywhere.
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Changeable weather is characteristic of these areas
and they are strongly influenced by large moving weather
systems called depressions or 'lows', and anticyclones or 'highs'.
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In subtropical climates the winters are
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.
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TROPICAL
A tropical climate is a type
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).
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Geographic Distribution
Coastal areas of southwest India, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, Mynamar (Burma), Southwestern Africa, French Guiana, northeast and
southeast Brazil.
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A desert is a landscape or
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.
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Rainforests are forests characterized by high
rainfall. The monsoon trough, alternately known as the intertropical
convergence zone, plays a significant role in creating Earth's tropical rain forests.
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The largest tropical rainforests exist in
the Amazon Basin, in Nicaragua, the southern Yucatán Peninsula,
in much of equatorial Africa, in much of southeastern Asia, northern and eastern Australia.
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MOUNTAINS
Mountains cover 54% of Asia, 36%
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.
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The highest mountains of each continent (the Seven
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