Continental


 * Introduction **

Climate-the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long Climate is known as Weather, subjected to variation and changes due to factors like latitude, altitude, and land ratio to water. Climate comes from Greek word "Clime". Climate causes to change temperature. In term of sunlight and latitudinal distance from the equator which determine weather in many ways.

Climate Climate is listed on the basis of temperature and precipitation, also is done by Köppen classification system, or Thornthwaite climate system. The climate zones of the world are divided from latitude to tropical and from mid-latitude to polar. Latitude to tropical climate is known from temperature and the weather is mostly hot during this time zone. Mid latitude are also moderate in nature and also listed by four visible season of winter-spring-summer-autumn. Polar climates generally tend to be cooler with long winters.



Continental Climate Continental climates are known witnessed along the east and north western coasts of Northern Hemisphere. Based on experience, the winter climatic condition at areas having Continental climate that holds a firm amounts of snow, throughout the year. Summers are characterized with moderate precipitation, while east coast also areas especially along the North American regions. Place like Iran, Turkey and Central Asia are generally marked with high precipitation during the winter time.

These areas affected with Continental climate conditions comprises of tall grass prairies or forests. This linear of weather experiences 3 months with a temperature reaching almost 10°C (50°F) while winters may sometimes go below 0°C (32°F).

Climate change and its effect on plant and animal life. Over the last 100 Years, emissions of greenhouse gases, mostly CO2, have raised the earths temperature an average of 0.6 o C. Although compared to some changes in the Earths climate this appears relatively small, the effects of this change on ecology are dramatic. For more information, please visit: http://www.geosc.psu.edu/Courses/Geosc320/Plant_Animal_Climate_Gorski.pdf

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