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Geography
Hot,Temeperate and Cold Climate
Question | Answer |
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What is climate? | Average weather across a area of the earth, determined by weather spanning over 35 years or more |
Three types of hot climate | Equatorial, Savanna , Hot desert |
Equatorial | on/near equator e.g. Brazil hot all year, avrg. temp 27'C twice average rainfall of Ireland |
Savanna | North and south of equator e.g. Nigeria and parts of brazil warm all year very wet summer winters dry 30'C avrg. temp. |
Hot Desert | south and north of equator usually western sides of countries/ continents avrg. daytime temp. 40-50'C night time drops below 0'C 250mm rainfall |
Two types of Temperate climates | Mediterranean, cool temperate oceanic |
Mediterranean | places around Mediterranean sea hot dry summers avrg. temp. 30'C almost no rain all summer winters mild and moist avrg. temp. 8'C 400mm rainfall |
Cool temperate oceanic | northwest Europe and coast of USA summers are mild plenty precipitation frost can occur temp. can fall below 0'C hail sleet snow 800-1,200 mm rainfall |
Two Cold Climates | Boreal, Tundra |
Boreal | stretches across northern hemisphere north of equator short summers avrg. temp. 16'C winter avrg. -29'C less then 400 mm of precipitation |
Tundra | North pole Greenland extreme northern parts of canada and russia cold all year summer 4'C winter-35'C approx 250mm precipitation |