HUMID TROPICAL

• This climate is warm, muggy and rainy year-round

• Temperature average is about 80⁰F (26 ⁰C).

• Showers or storms occur almost daily, and rainfallranges from 70 to more than 189 to 1140 cm a year

• Some places with this climate have Monsoons, seasonal winds that bring either dry or moist air.

• The humid tropical climate’s support Rainforestwhich contain more types of plants and animalsthan anywhere else on Earth.

• The world largest forest is in the Amazon Riverbasin in South America

TROPICAL SAVANNA

DESERT

DESERT

STEPPE

MEDITERRANEAN

HUMID SUBTROPICAL

MARINE WEST COAST

HUMID CONTINENTAL

SUBARCTIC

TUNDRA

ICE CAP

HIGHLAND

• TROPICAL CLIMATES– Humid Tropical– Tropical Savanna

• DRY CLIMATES– Desert– Steppe

• TEMPERATE– Mediterranean– Humid Subtropical– Marine West Coast– Humid Continental

• POLAR AND HIGHLAND CLIMATES– Subarctic– Tundra– Ice Cap– Highland