Weather and Climate

• Essential Question- How does climate and weather affect the way people live?

• Weather – What its like outside right now (hot/cold, snow/rain, clear/cloudy)

• Climate – Typical weather in an area over a period of time

• TROPICAL RAIN FOREST CLIMATEHOT, WET AND HUMID ALL YEAR ROUND, RAINS DAILY.

DIRECT SUN KEEPS THE TEMPERATURES HIGH. FOUND IN THE EQUATOR REGION.

• TROPICAL SAVANNA CLIMATEDRY WINTERS, WET SUMMERS, LOCATED IN THE TROPICS

JUST BEYOND THE TROPICAL RAINFOREST. LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE WHICH IS ALWAYS HIGH.

• DESERT CLIMATEHOT DAYS, COOL TO COLD NIGHTS, THERE IS LITTLE TO NO

RAIN IN THIS CLIMATE, THEREFORE IT IS VERY DRY. DESERTS COVER ABOUT 1/5 OF THE EARTH’S SURFACE.

• STEPPE CLIMATEDRY AREAS THAT BORDER DESERTS. THESE AREAS HAVE VERY

LITTLE RAINFALL ONLY ABOUT 10 TO 20 INCHES PER YEAR.

• MARINE WEST COAST CLIMATECOOL SUMMERS, WITH MILD WINTERS, HEAVY RAINS IN THE

WINTER

• MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATEMILD RAINY WINTERS WITH HOT DRY SUMMERS.

• HUMID SUBTROPICAL CLIMATERAIN FALLS ALL YEAR WITH HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SUMMER. WINTERS ARE SHORTER AND MILD SUMMERS ARE

HOT AND HUMID

• HUMID CONTINENTAL CLIMATECOLD SNOWY WINTERS, COOL TO WARM SUMMERS WITH

SOME RAIN EVERY MONTH.

• SUBARCTIC CLIMATELONG VERY COLD WINTERS WITH SHORT COOL SUMMERS.

• TUNDRA CLIMATELONG BITTERY COLD WINTERS WITH VERY SHORT COOL

SUMMERS. SUMMERS GET CONSTANT LIGHT BUT LITTLE HEAT FROM THE SUN.

• POLAR ICE CAP CLIMATEALWAYS COVERED WITH SNOW AND ICE. BITTERLY COLD ALL

YEAR AROUND WITH LITTLE TO NO PRECIPITATION.

HIGHLAND CLIMATEMOUNTAIN AREAS WHERE THE HIGHER IN ALTITUDE THE

COOLER THE AIR TEMPERATURE

Sea Level

1,000 ft

3,300 ft

6,600 ft

9,900 ft

13,200 ft

16,500 ft

19,800 ft

81°F

77°F

70°F

57°F

49°F

34°F

21°F

9°F

*Guayaquil

*Quito

Hot Zone

Temperate Zone

Cold Zone

Tundra

Snow cap