Climate Types
What kinds of climates are typical of different biomes?
Goal:
Goal:
The climate of a biome refers to the specific weather patterns related to a particular region. Climate is the weather conditions of an area over a long period of time.
There are a variety of different climate types throughout the world. They can be narrowed into the following categories:
- Tropical
- Dry
- Moderate
- Continental
- Polar
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Within those categories are subgroups. For example, a tropical climate can be tropical wet or tropical dry. What does that mean? Look at the chart below to compare different climates.
| Tropical Wet | Tropical Dry |
| • one season • warm temperatures • rain |
• two seasons • long dry (winter) season • short wet (summer) season • warm temperatures |
To see the climate type for each biome, click on the different areas in the map below.