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Climate Zones
• Green Book pg 550-551• Purple Book pg 52-53• Blue Book 60-61
Graphic OrganizerClimate Zone Name
Location/Color code
Weather Vegetation
LOW
MIDDLE
HIGH
MIDDLE
HIGH
Climate zone name
• General Location• Weather Conditions• Vegetation
Anywhere in the World Climates (3)
• Semi-Arid (Steppe)• Arid (Desert)• Highland
Semiarid•Around deserts/Inside continents•Hot summers and cooler winters•Grassland, few trees•Chaparral
Desert• 10 in. or less rain.• Summer warm-hot.
Winter quite cool-freezing
• Scrubby short bushes and cacti
Highland• High
mountain regions
• Greatly varied temperatures
• Mixed Forest to Evergreen
• Timberline
Low Latitude Climates (2)
• Tropical Wet (Tropical Rainforest)
• Tropical Wet and Dry (Tropical Savannah)
Tropical Wet• Low lat.• Always Hot• Tropical Rain
Forest• Canopy of Trees• Dark on the
lithosphere
Tropical Wet and
Dry
• Humid Tropics-T.W.&D.• Warm all year, Rainy/Dry Seasons• Tropical grassland with scattered
broccoli shaped trees
Mid-Latitude Climates (4)
• Mediterranean• Humid Subtropical• Humid Continental• Marine West Coast
Mediterranean• W. Coasts• Dry sun warm
summers/ mild wetter winters
• Scrub & thin grass• Woody bush trees• Grapes/Olives
Humid Subtropical
• East coasts mid lats.
• Hot H. summers/Mild H. winters
• Mixed forest
• Is it like Texas?
Humid Continental
• East Coasts Upper mid lats.
• 4 seasons, long cold winter & S. W. summers
• Mixed forest Trees>4-6 stories tall
Marine West Coast
• West Coast upper-mid lats.
• Cloudy mild summers/ cool rainy winters
• Temperate Evergreen/mixed Forests
High Latitude Climates (3)
• Subarctic• Tundra• Ice Cap
Subarctic
• Interior/East coasts High Lats.• Extreme Temps., long cold winters• Northern evergreen forest with permafrost
Tundra• High lats.
Coasts• Cold all year• Moss, low
shrubs, lichen• Permafrost
Ice Cap• Polar regions• Freezing cold year
round• Ice caps are ice. • Lichens
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