Flashcards: Types of Climates
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Tropical Rainforest | Low-latitude zone; thick rain forest; canopy |
| Tropical Savanna | Low-latitude zone; two seasons - wet and dry |
| Marine West Coast | Mid-latitude zone; winters - rainy and mild; summers - cool; deciduous and coniferous vegetation |
| Mediterranean | Mid-latitude zone; winters - rainy and mild; summers - hot and dry; shrubs and short trees |
| Humid Continental | Mid-latitude zone; winters - long, cold, and snowy; summers - short and hot; deciduous tree and grasslands |
| Humid Subtropical | Mid-latitude zone; winters - short and mild; summers - hot and humid, heavy rain; oaks, magnolias, and palm trees |
| Sub-Arctic | High-latitude zone; winters - very cold and bitter; summer - temps above freezing; evergreen forests called taiga |
| Tundra | High-latitude zone; ground is permafrost - permanently frozen ground; ground turns marshy in summer |
| Ice-Cap | High-latitude zone; polar ice caps; bitterly cold; lichen and moss grow here |
| Desert | All climatic zones; dry; little or no rain (less than 10 inches) or little vegetation; cacti or scrub |
| Steppe | All climatic zones; dry; dry grasslands; 10-20 inches of rain; treeless plain; bushes and short grasses |
| Highland | All climatic zones; highland; cool or cold temperatures all year; timberline - point on a mountain where trees stop growing; shrubs and wildflowers |
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