What is climate?
Climate is the type of weather in different parts of the world over a period of time.There are 12 different types of climate! These are grouped into five categories which are tropical, moderate, continental, polar and dry. I will compare the climate in North America and South America.
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| THIS IS CLIMATE ALL OVER THE WORLD! |
North America Climate versus South America Climate
Fun fact: there are EIGHT different types of climate in North America!
Climate in North America:
- Deciduous forest – Four seasons with warm summers and cold, winters. The trees shed their leaves in autumn.
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Coniferous forest - Also known as Taiga, cold and dry with snowy winters and warm summers.
- Tundra - Winters are very cold, summers are warm and there is little rainfall. Has been below freezing for two years!
- Alpine/mountain - Cold, windy and snowy. It is winter from October to May and summer is from June to September.
- Rainforest – Hot weather and a lot of rain all year!
- Desert – Warm to hot with not that much rain.
- Grassland - Hot summers and cold winters with a lot of rain.
- Mediterranean - Warm to high temperatures with rain in the autumn and winter months.
THIS IS NORTH AMERICA
Climate in South America:
- Has wet and dry season.
- In the Andean area from May to November is the coldest and driest time of year.
- The further away from the equator the more wet the weather.
- Even amounts of rain throughout the year.
- You can only get to Antarctica from November to March and then it is blocked by ice!
- Two weather phenomenons are La Nina and El Nino!
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| THIS IS SOUTH AMERICA |
If I had to choose I would want to stay living in North America! There are so many different parts of North America that I could travel to with my family and I could see what different climate is like. Where I live, I already get to see what different climate is like because we have four seasons and the weather is sometimes hot and cold and then really hot and really cold! I like living in North America and I would stay here!
