1. Chapter 3
Weather and Climate

2. How are weather and climate different from each other?
Short-term changes in the air for a given place and time
Climate
A region’s average weather conditions over a long period

3. How does sun and location, wind, water, and mountains affect climate?
Energy from the sun heats the planet with different locations receiving different amounts of sunlight (caused by Earth’s tilt, movement, and shape)
Sun and Location
moves heat around the earth, affecting how warm a place is
makes different areas either warmer or cooler
Wind
moves heat around the earth, affecting how warm or wet a place is
Water
Influences temperature and precipitation
As elevation increases, temperature decreases and climate changes
Mountains

4. Average Precipitation
World Climate Regions
Region
Where is it located?
Average Temperatures
Average Precipitation
Plant Life
Extra Info
Tropical
 On and near the equator
 -Tropical rain forest
-Tall grasses and scattered trees
Temperate
 East and West coast at middle and upper latitudes
 -woodland and grassland
-Forest Land
 Mediterranean – Mild winters and cool, breezy Summers
Continental – Long, cold, freezing winters and blistering hot Summers
Polar
 Higher latitudes and polar regions
 -Northern evergreen forests
-Moss, lichens, low shrubs
-or No Vegetation at all (Antarctica)
Dry
-Center at 30 degrees latitude
-also at the borders of desert land areas
 Cactus
Highland
 High mountain regions
 Forest and Tundra

5. Tropical (Subtropics)
Polar (Sub-Arctic)
Temperate
Tropical (Humid and Savanna)
Tropical (Subtropics)
Warm Temperate
Polar (Ice Cap)