Why do we have seasons?
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Two Reasons
The tilt of the Earth
Revolution around the Sun
Weather
 Day to day what it’s like.
 Ex.- the Weather on Wednesday was cold with ice
 Short term
Extreme Weather & Natural Disasters
 Droughts
 Blizzards
 Thunder storms
Extreme Weather & Natural Disasters
Tornados
 Cyclone of air produced by
thunderstorms
Extreme Weather & Natural Disasters
Hurricanes
 Produced by tropical thunderstorms
Climate
 The kind of weather a
region has over a period
of years.
 Long term
Things that influence climate &
weather:
 Wind currents
 Ocean currents
 Latitude
 Landforms/topography
 Elevation/Altitude
Climate Zones
 A place’s location on a continent, it’s topography, and
it’s elevation also effect the climate.
Climate Zones
What’s a Biome (Vegetation Zone)?
 A biome is the community of plants and animals of a
region.
Vegetation
Zones Map
Climograph
 A climograph is a graphical representation of average
temperature and precipitation, at a certain location.
 It is used for a quick-view of the climate of a location.
Denver, Colorado
Look at the world at night….
 If the map shows where most people live, what
conclusions can we make?
Tundra
The tundra biome is at
the top of the world –
around the North Pole!
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tundra soil is its
permafrost, a
permanently frozen
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Where is tundra located?
Taiga
Taiga biome
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Canada, Europe and
Asia. It is the largest
biome in the world.
Winters are cold.
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Where is taiga located?
Temperate
Forest
The Temperate
Deciduous Forest
biome has four
seasons of
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Where are the temperate forests
located?
The temperate deciduous forests are located primarily in the
eastern half of the
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Rainforests
 Half of the world's plant
and
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of the world.
Where are rainforests located?
Grasslands
Did you know that
grasslands are found on
every continent except
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Savanna
Where are grasslands located?
Desert
The hot desert is a
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extreme dryness.
Where are deserts located?
Many deserts are found in bands along 30 degrees latitude north and 30
degrees latitude south (between the red lines on the map).
Aquatic
 Water covers about
three quarters of our
planet.
 Aquatic biomes are
host to a wide variety
of life-forms, and
minerals
 Divided into 2 types
 Marine (salt water)
 Fresh Water