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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