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Earth is a wonderfully dynamic place. Each location is unique in both its daily and long-term weather patterns. The long-
term weather patterns of an area are known as its climate. Climates are determined by variables like temperature,
humidity, air pressure and wind. However, they are best expressed by the vegetation that grows here since plants are
fairly specific in the living conditions they can thrive in.

Though no location on Earth will have
exactly the same climate as another,
many do have very similar climatic
characteristics. In fact, these
characteristics were first classified
in 1884 by a Russian-German
climatologist named Wladimir Köppen.
Named after its founder, the Köppen
Climate Classification system
categorizes Earth's climates into five
major groups based on the native
vegetation present. He based his
classification system on plants
because he felt that they are the
best representative of the local
temperature, precipitation and other
variables that contribute to climate.

No two places on Earth will have
exactly the same climate, which is
the overall pattern of meteorological POLAR ZONE
conditions, such as temperature,
humidity, air pressure, wind and COLD ZONE
precipitation. If this sounds a lot like
weather, it's because climate is MODERATE ZONE
basically the long-term weather
patterns of an area. While weather
is a more day-to-day view of these SUBTROPICAL ZONE
variables, the climate of an area is
these variables over a long period of TROPICAL ZONE
time.

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