1. Do Now 10/7
City A and B are both located at the same latitude, but City A is at 1000 ft elevation and City B is at 4000 ft elevation. Which city would you expect to have the colder average temperature?
What does being further away from the coastline do to your climate?
Get an atlas from the table.

2. Climate Regions/Biomes
Cy Woods HS

3. World Climate Zones

4. Polar
Tundra, Arctic, Sub-Arctic
Little vegetation

5. Temperate
Continental, Humid Continental, Marine West Coast, Humid-Subtropical
Good farmland

6. Arid
Desert, Semiarid
Little vegetation, not always extremely hot.

7. Tropical Tropical Wet, Tropical Wet and Dry
Abundant agriculture and vegetation

8. Mediterranean
Sunny
Good agriculture

9. Mountainous
Highland
Vegetation changes with elevation

10. Atlas Practice Open the Atlas to page 24.
Which of the 6 climate zones are the following cities:
Polar
Temperate
Arid
Tropical
Mediterranean
Highland
Atlanta, GA (USA)
Stockholm, Sweden
Cairo, Egypt
Sydney, Australia
Kabul, Afghanistan
Rome, Italy
Murmansk, Russia

11. Atlas Comparing World Climate to the US
Using your atlas compare the following climates to a city in the United States.
For each city, write the city given, its climate, and a matching U.S. city.
Ex. Stockholm, Sweden – Humid Continental – Chicago, Illinois
Pages in atlas:
World – 24-25
US – 60
Tehran, Iran
Perth, Australia
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Yakutsk, Russia
Karachi, Pakistan
Jakarta, Indonesia
Moscow, Russia
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

12. Describing World Climate
With your information you collected comparing the world climate to the United States, create a short paragraph describing the climate at one of the locations.
Pretend you are studying abroad for a semester in one of the locations. Describe to your family what the climate is like there (what type of clothes you took, what the people there wear, etc.)