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Climate Zones and Ecosystems Overview

The document describes different types of climate and their main characteristics such as latitude, temperature, precipitation, associated places, and vegetation/fauna. It describes equatorial, humid tropical, monsoonal, hot arid, cold arid, dry steppe semi-arid, and oceanic climates, providing their main features.

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Climate Zones and Ecosystems Overview

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Features Latitude Temperature Precipitation Places Environments Vegetation Fauna

Amazon, basin
1500-2500 mm Congo, Gulf
Insects, reptiles,
Humidity, rain, there is year (forest Guinea, regions Large trees
Equatorial Equator 25° Equatorial forest parrots, monkeys
a single station rainy); on the Indonesian islands (over 30 m)
parents and felines
cost 10000 mm (from Sumatra to the
New Guinea

Central America Tall trees Giraffe, elephants,


Hot, dry season Area included
1500-2500 mm and the South and Africa, tropical forest and trunk, shrubs, antelopes, gazelles,
Tropical winter and season between the Tropics (15°- 20°
Clima Umido year Australia savanna grasses, hippos, felines,
humid in summer 25°)
Northern flowers insects, reptiles, birds

Tall plants
Wet zones
trunk (teak,
Hot humid summers from the Ocean
they range from 1500 to rubber Tigers, elephants, buffaloes,
with intensity Indian: India,
Monsonico Bass (15°-25°) over 20° 3000 mm Jungle bamboo, trees monkeys. Reptiles,
precipitazioni; inverni Bangladesh, Sud
summer monsoons of spices, insects
wet and dry East Asian,
cane of
Australia NE
sugar

Between the USA and


["Mexico","Sahara"]
It is the hottest climate and High in winter and
Kalahari; Namib; Insects, reptiles, rodents,
drier; strong very high in
Hot dry Bass (18°-28°) Arabian Peninsula; Desert and Oasis Palm camels and
thermal excursions estate max
Thar Desert dromedary
between day and night I was 30°-40°
Australia Center
100-250 mm Atacama (Chile)
all year

Continental, dry, Gobi Desert


Winter minima -
scarce precipitation; (Mongolia), Desero
Arid Climate Cold dry Media 15°-0°; max Cold desert Rare
it is enough from Nevada,
I was 25°-30°
warm and cold winters Taklimakan

North America
24° (in winter it Western, Asia Shrubs and sparse
Strong hike Steppa; in the areas various cattle, birds;
Semiarid goes below 0°; central, America bushes
thermal with winters Media 350 mm per year where there is more prairie: horses,
steppe dry in the summer yes from the South, Australia prairie: grasses
cold and hot summers umidità: prateria antelope, etc.
exceed 30° Southeast old
Eastern Europe

Influenced costs
from the air masses
Europe, North
humid coming from
America, part
from the ocean; reduced
southern of
temperature excursion
Variables; usually South America Broadleaf forests and
Oceanic abundant Average (30°-60°) 2000 mm per year
between 6° and 22° South Africa heath
precipitation Abeti, pine,
Japan
especially during larch, ferns, Deer, wolves, roe deer,
South Australia
the winter. Winters ivy, poplars, bears, and lynxes
Oriental
however myths and summers oak, beech
fresh
Temperate Climate
Broth
It is a variety of
monsoonal climate but Winter: averages
Monsonico China, Japan and
outside the tropics; Medium (40°-55°) 15°; Summer: 1500 mm per year Broadleaf forest
Chinese Korea
dry in winter and average 25°
humid in summer
In fact, yes
Coastal strip
it would be called 'climate' Evergreens,
Mediterranean
"the internal seas" and it is forest
Rarely but California, Chile Stain
Mediterranean microclimate. It is Average 10-20° Mediterranean bears, wolves, wild boars
sometimes violent enters, Australia Mediterranean
contrapposto (oak, lesson,
Southwestern and
to the oceanic. Climate maritime pines
Southern Africa
mite
Alaska; Canada;
Lands near the poles, Eurasia
Continental Maximum estate: 20° from Europe of Steppe and Taiga;
low evaporation High (50°-70°)
Freddo Winter: -25° Nord sino alla Boreal forest
low precipitation
Siberia

Temperate Climate More or less humid at Abeti, pines, Bears, moose, buffalo,
310 mm
Freddo second of the vic. Central Europe larch, birch beavers and marmots
With the sea and more or northern
Continental Medium-High (from Maximum estate: 20° Taiga, prairies and
less warm at Austria, Rep.
medium 50° to 48° Winter: -15° deciduous forests
second of the Czech Republic, Poland
distance of the poles. It is a Hungary, etc.
European climate

Snowfall, Arctic zones of


Reindeer, moose, foxes,
cold understood; North America and Tundra (Plain Moss, lichens
Subpolar Old (60°-75°) from -22° to 6° Snowfall; 200 mm white bears, roosters
frozen underground of Siberia, without trees) the dwarf trees
cedroni, seals
permafrost Greenland

Snow squalls
generate lentils
-80° (record) North Pole and Snow and ice
Polar Perpetual cold Old wind that moves Nonexistent Nonexistent
a -10° Antarctica perennial
the ice as
if it were dust
Snowy Climate

Mountain
It depends
Rocky (USA)
from the altitude;
Andes, Alps Ibex, bears,
low blood pressure; 230 mm; snow
High Mountain from -18° to 10° Kilimanjaro High mountain Conifers lama, leopard of the
low temperature in winter
(Africa), Fuji mole
increase with
Japan
sunburn
Himalaya (Tibet)

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