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This model with just three zones is a little too simple. It doesn’t
show all of the variations in climate. The most important factors to
define a climate zone are the average temperature and the amount of
precipitation through the year.
Let’s look at a more complex model that has twelve climate zones.
We will look at those zones in North America.
1. Tropical wet
2. Tropical wet and dry
TROPICAL
3. Hot arid
4. Interior continental
semiarid
DESERT
5. Dry subtropical
6. Humid subtropical
7. Temperate marine
TEMPERATE
8. Humid midlatitude
9. Subarctic
San Francisco
Hawaii
San José
Mexico
City
Atlanta
San Juan
Phoenix
New York City
Fairbanks
Vancouver
Minneapolis
CANADA
GREENLAND
MEXICO
CUBA
UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
SUBARCTIC
10. Arctic
11. High-altitude
12. Ice cap
POLAR
Nuuk
Climate Zones
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