This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for an earth science unit on climate zones and biomes. Review questions are included at the bottom of the study guide.

Wonderful site! Learn about climates and gather helpful information. When you are done, take the climates quiz to show what you have learned.

Have you ever wondered why one area of the world is a desert, another a grassland, and another a rainforest? Why are there different forests and deserts, and why are there different types of life in each area? The answer is climate.

Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 3-ESS2-2: world climates.

Discover a few types of climates found on the earth like rain forests and deserts.

This is the fifth lesson in a series of learning modules on the topic of climate change. Using scientific models, it takes a look at the effects of climate change on different parts of the earth. Five key ideas are explored: polar...

Find out what the climate is like in thousands of places all over the world. You'll not only get the climate, but the latitude and longitude as well!

Detailed geographical information on any country is available at this site. Within the World Map section, you can get facts and figures about each country's geography, demographics, government, political system, flags, historical and...

A discussion of the geography of Algeria. You can read about the three distinct geographic regions, the climate, and the natural hazards. Information from the CIA World Fact Book.

On this website, students learn about the history, capital, flag, climate, terrain, people, economy, and population of Georgia.

Travel with your students on a virtual field trip and explore the deserts of the world! This is site is interactive and informative.

Provides brief descriptions of the twelve coldest countries in the world.

Contains brief descriptions of tree species which can be found at various elevational gradients: Subalpine, Montane, Woodland Zone, and Black Hills. These same types of forests would have greeted early settlers to the area.