Part C - Climate Extremes Tropical climates tend to have consistent day lengths

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Part C - Climate Extremes Tropical climates tend to have consistent day lengths and insolation that produce warm temperatures. These features, combined with seasonal rain shifts due to movements of the inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ), warm ocean temperatures, and unstable air masses, guarantee lots of precipitation and little to no winter in the tropics. Globally, they exist between 20°N&S; latitudes from southern Florida to throughout Brazil and to northern Australia. In detail, tropical climates include: rain forests (uniform rain and temperatures throughout the year) monsoon regions (short dry seasons, increased rainfall and temperatures in summer), and savanna (more seasonal variations, exist pole ward of other tropical climates) (Figure C1) Figure C1: Example of tropical climates: (A) a rain forest along a river, (B) monsoon rainfall, and (C) a savanna landscape Polar and highland climates have no real summer with average summer monthly temperatures of 50°F (10°C). Characteristics of these climates include

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1. it is tropical as the temperature is continuously varying around 20 degree C

2. it is tropical as it has high temperature and rainfall during summer.

3.Tropical as it has uniform high temperature throught the season.

4. Polar as its average temperature is around 0 degree C

5. it is neither as its rainfall is uniform and temperature is varying.

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