WORLD CLIMATE REGIONS
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GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION
MAJOR WEATHER PATTERN
LOW LATITUDES – TROPICAL
TROPICAL HUMID (WET)
TROPICAL WET AND DRY
DRY – ARID
ARID
SEMIARID
MIDDLE LATITUDES – TEMPERATE
MEDITERRANEAN
HUMID SUBTROPICAL
MARINE WEST COAST
HUMID CONTINENTAL
HIGH LATITUDES – POLAR
SUBARCTIC
TUNDRA
ICE CAP
HIGHLAND
HIGHLAND
VEGETATION
WORLD CLIMATE REGIONS
TRANSFER INFORMATION FROM PAGES 52-53 ONTO THIS PAGE.
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION
MAJOR WEATHER PATTERN
VEGETATION
LOW LATITUDES – TROPICAL
TROPICAL HUMID (WET)
temp - hot all year
precip – 65” to 450” per year, over 8” per month
along the equator
tropical rain forest
TROPICAL WET AND DRY
between humid tropics and deserts,
low latitudes – tropical regions of Africa,
South and Central America, Australia,
South and Southeast Asia
temp – hot all year
precip – 50” per year, summer = 10”, winter = .5”
monsoon influences in some regions of South and
Southeast Asia
tropical grassland with
scattered trees
DRY – ARID
ARID
centered along 30º latitude, interior of some
large continents, and along western coastsSaharan Africa, SW Asia, Australia and
Southwest North America
temp – hot days, cold nights
precip – less than 10” per year, summer .6”, winter .1”
high temps in the summer can exceed 115º
sparse drought resistant
plants, many barren,
rocky, sandy areas
SEMIARID
generally bordering deserts and interiors of
large continents
temp – hot summer, mild to cold winter
precip - 10”-20” per year, summer 3.4”, winter .2”
grassland with few
trees
MIDDLE LATITUDES – TEMPERATE
MEDITERRANEAN
west coasts in middle latitudes near cool
ocean currents -
temp – sunny, warm summer, wetter winter
precip – 14” to 35” per year, summer .4”, winter 3.8”
scrub woodland and
grassland
HUMID SUBTROPICAL
east coast in middle latitudes – Southeast
United States – Virginia Beach
temp – hot summer, mild winter
precip – 40” per year, summer 6.2”, winter 2.8”
coastal areas of this climate are affected by hurricanes
and typhoons
mixed forest
MARINE WEST COAST
west coast of upper middle latitudes –
especially northwest Europe and North
America
temp – mild summer, cool winter
precip – 20”-98” per year (45”), summer 2.5”,
winter 5.5”
influences by the ocean and westerly winds
HUMID CONTINENTAL
east coast and interior of upper middle
latitude continents
temp – short warm summer, long cold winter
precip – 20”-50”(27”) per year, summer 3.2”,
winter 1.6”
four distinct seasons
temperate evergreen
forests
mixed forest
ADD**grassland in center
of cont=temp.= pampas
prairie, steppe, veld**
HIGH LATITUDES – POLAR
SUBARCTIC
higher latitudes of interior and east coast of
continents
temp – short mild summers, long cold winters
precip – 5” to 15” per summer, summer 1.8”, winter
1.2”
northern evergreen
forest
temp – very short cool summers, very long cold
winters
precip – 5” to 15” per year, summer 1.9”, winter 1.2”
moss, lichens, low
shrubs; permafrost
bogs in the summer
temp – cold all year
precip – less than 10”, summer 1”, winter .4”
very rarely does the temperature rise above freezing
none
TUNDRA
high latitude coasts
ICE CAP
polar regions – Greenland, Antarctica,
Arctic Basin Islands
HIGHLAND
HIGHLAND
high mountain regions – western North and
South America, eastern Asia and Africa,
southern and central Europe and Asia
temp – varies with elevation
precip – varies greatly - ranges from 3” to 123”
wind patterns affect rain on windward and leeward
sides of the highland areas
forest to tundra
vegetation, depending
on elevation