Notes Worksheet

1. What are the two climates found in the low
latitudes?




2. Which climate type is found in areas close
to the equator?




3. Why does it rain so much in areas close to
the equator?





4. What is the monsoon?






5. Where is the tropical wet and dry climate
type found?




6. Which type of air creates low pressure?




7. Which type of air creates high pressure?




8. What does arid mean?
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9. What do all dry climates have in common?




10. Where are most arid climates found?




11. What are four causes of a desert?







12. Which climate is a transition zone between
the arid and humid climates?




13. What are the four climates found in the
middle latitudes?





14. What are the two areas where the
Mediterranean climate is found?





15. Where is the humid subtropical climate found?




16. What kind of trees are found in a deciduous
forest?




17. What kind of trees are found in a coniferous
forest?




18. What influences heavily the marine-west-
coast climate?




19. Where is the marine-west-coast climate
typically found?




20. Where is the humid continental climate
found?




21. What are three climates found in the high
latitudes?





22. Where is the subarctic climate found?




23. Why does northern Europe not have a
subarctic climate?




24. Where is the tundra climate found?




25. What is permafrost?






26. Where is the ice cap climate found?




27. What are three climates that are found in
both the low and middle latitudes?

Climates Chart

28. Which climate is warm and rainy year- round?




29. Which climate is warm year-round with
distinct wet and dry seasons?




30. What is the wet season in the tropical wet
and dry climate?




31. Which climate type is dry?




32. Which climate type averages 10-20 inches
of precipitation a year?




33. Which climate type is determined by
elevation?




34. Which climate type has dry, sunny, warm
summers with mild, wetter winters?




35. Which climate type has hot, humid summers and mild, humid winters; precipitation year-round?




36. Which climate type has cloudy, mild summers; cool, rainy winters?




37. Which climate type has four distinct
seasons?




38. Which climate type has long, cold winters;
short, mild summers; low precipitation?




39. Which climate type is cold all year with very
long, cold winters; very short, cool summers; low precipitation?




40. Which climate type is freezing cold with
snow and ice year-round and precipitation
of less than 10 inches a year?

Vegetations Chart

41. Which vegetation is found in the ice cap
climate zone?




42. Which vegetation is found in the arid
climate zone?




43. Which vegetation is found in the
Mediterranean climate zone?
44. Which vegetation is found in the tropical
wet climate zone?




45. Which vegetation is found in the tropical
wet and dry climate zone?




46. Which vegetation is found in the semiarid
climate zone?




47. Which vegetation is found in the subarctic
climate zone?




48. Which vegetation is found in the tundra
climate zone?




49. In which three climate zones are deciduous
and coniferous forests found>




50. Which type of trees grow in the Taiga
(boreal forest)?

USE THE MAP ON THE BACK TO CHART WHERE IN THE WORLD YOU WOULD FIND EACH CLIMATE TYPE.