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Understanding World Climates and Biomes: A Comprehensive Analysis

Explore how the world's climates and biomes are organized into four main zones with distinctive features like tropical rainforests, dry deserts, abundant prairies, and frigid high-latitudes.

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Understanding World Climates and Biomes: A Comprehensive Analysis

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  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

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

  7. Tropical • hot avg. temp 80 • avg. 80 inches of rain per year

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

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

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

  11. Prairie: an inland grassland area

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

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

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

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

  16. Review Question: Chapter 3 : Lesson 3 Read pages 69-72 and answer Review Questions on page 72 Hand in Google Class Room.

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