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Europe:Climate Zones
Europe: Key Words
Climate Zone | Description/Characteristics | Types of Natural Vegetation |
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Marine West Coast | Mild temperatures. Long growing seasons due to mild temperatures, abundant precipitation. | Forests such as deciduous and coniferous thrive here. |
Humid Continental | Cooler summers and colder dry winters. Dry winds cause by less rain. | Deciduous and coniferous. |
Mediterranean | Hot and dry summers, mild and wet winters with no snow. | Shrubbs, grass, alive trees and grape vines. Low rain falls and many droughts. |
Subarctic | cool summers and frigid winters. | Alot of timberline; the point where trees stop growing. |
Tundra | Extremely cold, summer sun shines for 20 hours, in the winter sun shines for 4 hours. | Bearly any trees, almost none. |
Highland | Climate is usually cool to cold. | Mountains |
Steppe | Dry conditions, almost like the desert, but a little better. | |
Humid Subtropical | Hot and wet summers, mild and wet winters. |