climate zones
Earth's weather regions
Climate zones are regions of the Earth classified by their characteristic weather patterns, temperature ranges, and precipitation levels.
The most common system divides the world into tropical, temperate, and polar zones based on latitude, though finer classifications account for factors like elevation and ocean currents.
The Mediterranean climate zone features hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters.
- humidityMoisture in atmosphere
- montaneOf cooler elevated zones
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
- frost lineSoil's frozen zone limit
- tropicalOf hot, humid regions
rain forest · polar · Arctic · alpine · continental · biodiversity · habitable zone · Mediterranean · temperate · equatorial · monsoon regions · dry season · ice · maritime · desert · rainfall · heat · global warming
- Caribbean geographyHaiti, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola, Santo Domingo, Port-au-Prince
- plant geographyfloristic regions, native flora, native plants, tropical flora, desert flora
- geographycontinents, continent, oceans, countries, country
- regionsregion, regions, area, areas, zone
- climateweather, global warming, temperature, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas
- ecologyhabitat, ecosystem, balance, niche, food webs