Climate Zones and Biomes

What this quiz asks

• What name is given to the vast belt of coniferous forest stretching across Russia, Scandinavia and Canada?
• Which treeless biome of the far north grows on ground that stays frozen all year just below the surface?
• Which grassland biome, dotted with scattered trees such as acacias and baobabs, covers much of East Africa?
• Which word, from the Arabic for 'season', names the seasonal wind shift that brings South Asia its heavy summer rains?
• A Mediterranean climate has hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters.
• Which of the classic climate zones lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle?
• A place must be hot to count as a desert.
• In the Köppen climate classification, which capital letter marks the tropical climates?
• What is a rain shadow?
• What name is given to the vast temperate grasslands that stretch from Ukraine across Central Asia?
• In a tropical rainforest, what is the dense upper layer formed by most of the tree crowns called?
• Is the land east of the Cascade Range in Washington State drier than the land to its west?
• Select ALL of these regions that have a Mediterranean climate.
• The Sahel is a semi-arid belt lying between the Sahara and which biome to its south?
• Select ALL of these trees that are typical of the taiga.
• What name did sailors give to the calm, rainy belt near the Equator where the trade winds meet?
• Order these biomes as they typically appear going from the Equator towards the North Pole.
• Mawsynram and Cherrapunji, famous for their enormous monsoon rainfall, lie in which Indian state?
• In Köppen's system, a climate is polar if its warmest month averages below what temperature, in °C?
• What name is given to the dense, drought-hardy scrubland of California's Mediterranean climate?