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Tropical Wet
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Hot, wet, humid all year around. Rains daily. Lot's of animals and plants. Near the equator.
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Tropical wet and dry
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Dry winters, wet summers, located in the tropics, just beyond the tropical rainforest. Temperature is pretty high.
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Arid desert
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Hot days, cool too cold nights, little to no rain, very dry.
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Steppe
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Dry areas that border deserts. Very little rainfall. Only about 10 to 20 inches of rain per year.
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Marine west coast
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Cool summers, mild winters, heavy rain in the winter. Examples: Seattle, Oregon, and California.
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Mediterranean
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Mild, rainy, winters with hot and dry summers. Winters are shorter and mild summers and hot and humid.
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Humid Subtropical
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Rain falls all year around with heavy thunderstorms in the summer. Winters are shorter and mild summers are very hot and humid.
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Humid Continental
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Cold, snowy winters, cool to warm summers with some rain each month. EXAMPLE: MA
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Subarctic
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Long very cold winters with short cool summers. EXAMPLE: Alaska, Canada
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Tundra
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Long bitterly cold winters with short cool summers. Summers get constant light but little heat from the sun.
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Polar ice cap
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Always covered with snow and ice. Bitterly cold all year around with little to no percipitation.
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Highland
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Mountain areas where the higher in altitude, the cooler the air temperature. EXAMPLE: Scotland, the Andes.
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