Climate Regions Vocabulary

___________receives at least 2 meters of rain per year

• savanna

• steppe

• rainforest

• desert

______________is a grassland

• savanna

• rainforest

• steppe

• tundra

_______ is a prairie or grassland found in semiarid region

• desert

• steppe

• rainforest

• polar

______is a dry region

• rainforest

• subarctic

• semiarid

• desert

_________is a wet and warm climate

• humid subtropical

• tundra

• polar

• equator

__________ lies north of the humid continental climates

• tundra

• rainforest

• temperature

• subarctic

________is an extremely cold, dry climate zone

• tundra

• ^monsoon

• vegetation

• permafrost

permafrost

• permanently frozen soil

• subtropical

• polar

• broader term for habitat

tropical

• warm temperature

• cold and dry

• cold and wet

• mild

altitude

• to produce a change in

• the height of a place above sea level

• any form of water

• not the same