Climate Zones Green Book pg 550-551 Purple Book pg 52-53 Blue Book 60-61 Make a slide for each climate zone

Graphic Organizer Climate Zone Name Location/Color code Weather Vegetation

HIGH MIDDLE LOW 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 Steppe (looks like a western ) see chart on pg 60 in blue book

Desert 10 in. or less rain. Summer warm-hot. Winter quite cool-freezing Scrubby short bushes and cacti Desert: scrubby bush, rock 90% of deserts are rock (sand blows off)

Highland High mountain regions Greatly varied temperatures Mixed Forest to Evergreen Timberline Highland (no trees, snow on mts, evergreens) Vegetation depends on elevation.

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

Tropical Wet and Dry Humid Tropics-T.W.&D. Warm all year, Rainy/Dry Seasons Tropical grassland with scattered broccoli shaped trees Tropical Savannah Broccoli shaped trees (animas eat underneath them) Tropical Wet and Dry is between Humid tropics and Deserts

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 Mediterranean

Humid Subtropical East coasts mid lats. Hot H. summers/Mild H. winters Mixed forest Is it like Texas? Humid subtropical (trees 2-3 stories tall) H=humid Humid Subtropical

Humid Continental East Coasts Upper mid lats. 4 seasons, long cold winter & S. W. summers Mixed forest Trees>4-6 stories tall Humid Continental Trees taller than 2-3 stories, green, swampy beautiful leaf changes in the fall

Marine West Coast West Coast upper-mid lats. Cloudy mild summers/ cool rainy winters Temperate Evergreen/mixed Forests Marine west coast (beautiful, clear water)

High Latitude Climates (3) Subarctic Tundra Ice Cap

Subarctic Interior/East coasts High Lats.             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 Tundra sounds of water melting, “squishy” no trees

Ice Cap Polar regions Freezing cold year round Ice caps are ice. Lichens Ice cap

Humid subtropical, can tell by animals, snakes.

Steppe (could you film a western there?)

Subarctic

Semiarid (Steppe)

New England Humid Continental

Marine west Coast clear water, mixed forest

Semiarid (steppe)

            Highland, Subarctic, Marine West Coast

Ice Cap

Humid Subtropical

Desert

Marine west coast

Desert

Tropical wet

Icecap

Greece Mediterranean (might look for another pic?)

Subarctic (highland possible answer…rocky, no trees on mts)

Tundra in the summertime

Desert

Highland

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desert

desert

Humid Continental (see leaves changing) BUT…if we see moss, lots of green, might be Marine West Coast

Humid Subtropical