CLIMATE AND WEATHER

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a lack of warm summers. No month has an average

temperature of 10 °C or higher.
The tundra covers over 20% of the earth. The sun shines 24 hours in the summer, and barely ever shines at all in the winter.

or semi-permanent layer of ice.

it travels a longer distance through the atmosphere, and is

spread across a larger surface area.

lie between the tropics and the polar circles. The changes

in these regions between summer and winter are generally subtle, warm or cool, rather than extreme, burning hot or freezing cold. However, a temperate climate can have very unpredictable weather.

are generally grouped into six categories: oceanic, mediterranean, humid subtropical,

continental, arid and semi-arid.

all year with less extremes of heat or cold.

northwest Europe, New Zealand and coastal North America.

found in the warmer areas, and coniferous trees (with needle-type

leaves) are found everywhere.

are strongly influenced by large moving weather systems called depressions

or 'lows', and anticyclones or 'highs'.

but not as hot as the summer season. These climates

rarely—if ever—see frost or snow, and you can adore plants such as palm, citrus and many broadleaf evergreens flourish.

typical in the tropics. Climate classification defines it as a

non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures above 18°C (64.4 °F).

(Burma), Southwestern Africa, French Guiana, northeast and southeast Brazil.

receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough

to support growth of most plants. Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 250 millimetres per year.

monsoon trough, alternately known as the intertropical convergence zone, plays

a significant role in creating Earth's tropical rain forests.

Basin, in Nicaragua, the southern Yucatán Peninsula, in much of

equatorial Africa, in much of southeastern Asia, northern and eastern Australia.

America, 25% of Europe, 22% of South America, 17% of

Australia, and 3% of Africa. As a whole, 24% of the Earth's land mass is mountainous.

Peak Continent

Height

Mount Everest Asia 8,850 m
Aconcagua South America 6,959 m
Mount McKinley North America 6,194 m
Kilimanjaro Africa 5,895 m
Mount Elbrus Europe 5,642 m
Vinson Massif Antarctica 4,897 m
Mount Kosciuszko Australia – Oceania 4,884 m