WORLD CLIMATE REGIONS TRANSFER INFORMATION FROM PAGES 52-53 ONTO THIS PAGE. 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