1. Chapter 3 : Lesson 3
World Climate Patterns

2. Essential Question
How are world climates and biomes organized?

3. Biome: is an ecological community defined by distinctive plant and animal groups

4. Natural Vegetation: plant life that grows in a certain area if people have not changed the natural environment

5. Average Daily Temperature: the average of the daily high temp and overnight low

7. The world is organized into four climate zones:
tropical
dry
Multi-latitude
high-latitude

8. Tropical
hot avg. temp 80
avg. 80 inches of rain per year

9. Dry
Less than 10 inches of rain per yr.
Hot or Cold

10. Oasis: small area in a desert where water and vegetation are found.

11. Mid-latitudes Large variety in temperature Northern Hemisphere
Four Seasons

12. Prairie: an inland grassland area

13. Deciduous: falling off or shed seasonally; trees such as oak and maple

14. High-latitudes Not much rain, 16 inches avg. per yr. Cold Winters
Cannot support a productive agriculture

15. Coniferous: vegetation having cones and needle shaped leaves, including many evergreens, that keep their foliage throughout the winter

16. Permafrost: permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground

17. Review Question:
Chapter 3 : Lesson 3
Read pages and answer Review Questions on page 72 Hand in Google Class Room.