Climate zones Lesson 16 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Weather changes from day to day, but climate is the usual weather of a place, measured over many years. 1 Near the equator the Sun's rays strike the ground most directly, so it is hot all year; near the poles the rays come in at a low slant and spread their heat thin, so it is cold. 2 So the Earth has broad belts called climate zones: hot tropical zones near the equator, cold polar zones near the poles, and temperate zones in between with four seasons. 3 Mountains and seas change the climate too: it gets colder the higher you climb, and places by the sea have milder winters and cooler summers than places far inland. 5 Weather is what is happening now; climate is the usual weather over many years. 6 The tropics near the equator are hot all year because the Sun's rays fall on them most directly. 7 The polar zones are cold all year because the Sun's rays strike them at a low slant. 8 The temperate zones lie between the tropics and the poles and have four seasons. 9 A desert is a place that gets very little rain or snow; it can be hot like the Sahara or cold like Antarctica. 10 The air gets colder the higher you climb, so high peaks can have snow even near the equator. 11 The sea warms up and cools down slowly, so it makes the climate of coasts milder. 12 Plants and animals are adapted to their climate, like polar bears to the Arctic and camels to the desert. 13 A camel can go many days without drinking and copes with great heat; its hump stores fat, not water. 14 The seasons come from the tilt of the Earth's axis, not from the Earth being nearer to or farther from the Sun. ← previous Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and stormsnext → Air and why we need it↑ back to World This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/