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Climate Zones
The document discusses climate as the long-term atmospheric conditions of a region, emphasizing its impact on biomes, plant growth, and animal habitation. It outlines the Köppen climate classification system, which categorizes the world's climates based on temperature and precipitation patterns, detailing major categories such as tropical moist, dry, moist mid-latitude, polar, and highland climates. Each climate type is associated with specific geographical locations around the world.
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Climate Zones
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- 2. Climateand Biomes Climateis the characteristic condition of the atmosphere near the earth's surface at a certain place on earth. It is the long-term weather of that area (at least 30 years). This includes the region's general pattern of weather conditions, seasons and weather extremes like hurricanes, droughts, or rainy periods. Two of the most important factors determining an area's climate are air temperature and precipitation. World biomes are controlled by climate. The climate of a region will determine what plants will grow there, and what animals will inhabit it. All three components, climate, plants and animals are interwoven to create the fabric of a biome.
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- 4. The Köppen Climate ClassificationSystem is the most widespread system used to classify the climates of places on our planet. The system was developed German climatologist and amateur botanist Wladimir Köppen (1846-1940) who divided the world's climates into several major categories based upon general temperature profile related to latitude.
- 5. TheKöppen system classifiesalocation’sclimatemainlyusing annual and monthly averagesof temperatureand precipitation.
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- 8. Tropical Moist Climates: Theseareverywarm climatesfound in the tropicsthat experiencehigh quantitiesof precipitation. Theprimary distinguishing characteristic of these climatesisall monthshave averagetemperaturesabove 18°C (64°F).
- 9. Countrieswith Tropical MoistClimates Amazon River Basin (South America), Congo River Basin (Africa), eastern coast of Central America, eastern coast of Brazil, the Philippines, coast of Madagascar, eastern India, southern Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
- 10. Dry Climates Theseareclimatesthat experiencelittle precipitation during mostof theyear. Further, potential losses of water from evaporation and transpiration greatly exceed atmospheric input.
- 11. Location: Dry Climates FromtheCaspian Seaeastward to northern China, Mongolia, and partsof southern South America.
- 12. Moist Mid –latitudeClimateswithMild Winters In theseclimates, summer temperaturesare warm to hot and winters aremild. Theprimary distinguishing characteristic of these climatesisthecoldest month hasan average temperaturebetween 18°C (64°F) and -3°C (27°F).
- 13. Location: Moist Mid–latitudeClimateswith Mild Winters Southeastern United States, northern Argentina, Uruguay, southern Brazil, southern Japan, and southern China.
- 14. Moist Mid –latitudeClimateswithCold Winters In these climates, summer temperatures are warm and winters are cold. The primary distinguishing characteristic of these climates is the average temperature of warmest month exceeds 10°C (50°F), and average temperature of coldest is below -3°C (27°F).
- 15. Location: Moist Mid–latitudeClimateswith Cold Winters northeastern and mid-western United States, east-central Europe, northern China, and northern Korea.
- 16. Polar Climates Theseclimateshavevery cold wintersand summers,with no real summer season. The primary distinguishing characteristic of these climatesisthewarmest month hasan average temperaturebelow 10°C (50°F).
- 17. Location: Polar Climates RegionsinNorth America, Greenland, and Eurasiathat border theArctic Ocean, Antarctic Peninsula, and many polar islands.
- 18. Highland Climates Theseareclimatesthat arestrongly influenced bytheeffectsof altitude. Asaresult, the climateof such locationsisrather different from places with low elevationsat similar latitudes.
- 19. Location: Highland Climates RockyMountain Rangein North America, theAndean mountain rangein South America, theAlpsin Europe, Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, the Himalayansin Tibet, Mt. Fuji in Japan.
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