The Earth's diverse climate regions encompass a wide array of environmental conditions. Tropical climates are characterized by consistently high temperatures and significant rainfall, with variations such as tropical wet and dry regions experiencing alternating wet and dry seasons.
Despite the low temperatures the summers can be full of life with insects hatching, flowers blooming, and birds raising their young.
Some layers of the tundra are always frozen due to the constant cold and the permanently frozen soil is known as permafrost.
Tundra climate runs across Russia, Alaska, and Northern Canada.
Ice Cap
Very few plants and animals can survive in this climate.
Average temperatures are always at or below freezing.
Ice cap climates are found mainly in Antarctica and on the northern part of Greenland.
temperate continental
Subarctic
Large animals such as moose, deer, and bear thrive in this environment.
Summers are short and winters are very long with very low temperatures.
North of the humid continental climates you will find the subarctic climate.
Humid Continental
Moderate amounts of precipitation occur in the spring and summer while less occur in the fall and winter.
In the winter polar air masses can bring weather that is below zero while in the summer the temperatures can be above 100 degrees Fahrenheit
Tropical and polar air masses constantly make changes to humid continental climates.
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Highlands
For instance, even though the Himalayas are closer to the equator then the state of Florida their altitude makes the climate completely different.
Precipitation also increases with higher altitudes as air masses are pushed upward into cooler air.
Temperature falls as you increase is altitude and large areas above sea level can produce complete different climates than those found a few miles away.
Conclusion
Dry climates have higher evaporation rates than precipitation.
Tropical rainy climates are very wet and hot and are made up of rainforests and thick savannas.
Earth is made up of many different climates including tropical rainy, dry, temperate marine, temperate continental, polar, and highlands.
dry
Arid
An area is a desert if it receives less than 25 centimeters of rain a year. That is less than a foot.
Deserts can also be rocky and cold.
A hot, sandy desert is what you typically think of when you think of an arid climate.
semiarid
In the United States the Great Plains are considered a semi-arid climate.
A steppe is still dry, but it gets enough rainfall for small vegetation to grow.
it gets 25 to 50 centimeters
tropical rainy
tropical wet and dry
Subtopic
alt wet and dry seasons heavy rain
during the wet seasons
