climate on earth. what are the climatic regions of the earth? do you know? the climatic regions
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Climate On Earth
What are the Climatic Regions of the Earth?
Do you know?
The Climatic Regions
On the basis of the climatic zones there are four major regions in the world-
The Four Major Climatic
Regions
The Desert Region
The Tundra Region
The Temperate Grassland Region
The Tropical and Equatorial Region
Come let’s now see where these regions are located and what they consist of.
Let’s start with THE EQUATORIAL REGION.
Where is this region located?
The Equatorial Region of the world is located 0º to10 º north and south of the Equator, that is , in the Tropical or the Torrid Zone.
It has a hot and wet climate throughout the year. The high temperature and heavy rainfall throughout the year produced abundant growth of trees specially in two parts of the world – in North of South America and the Central parts of Africa.
In South America , the Amazon rainforest is known as the SELVAS
In Africa the rain forest is known as the CONGO RAIN FOREST
Did you know these forests have got a specialty that no other forests in the world have?
Only these forests in the world have four distinct layers.
There are different types of animals seen in these forests, namely different varieties of monkeys …..
The Squirrel monkeys
The squirrel monkey
The Lemur
Baboons
SPIDER MONKEYS
Chimpanzees
Gorillas
Hippopotamuses
Pygmy Hippo
Snakes
A deadly Amazon Eyelash Pit Viper
Viper
A green viper shows off its fangs
Boa Constrictor
A Rainbow Boa
BUSH MASTER the largest of all vipers and the longest venomous snake in the western hemisphere
Different types of birds are also seen here
Macaw
A humming bird
The Hoatzin
Red Egrets
A variety of insects like the tree lizards are seen in these forests
And butterflies