the earth has many different climates
weather is a local short-term temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind speed, cloud cover and other physical conditions of the lower atmosphere over hours or days. supplement 10on pp. s43-47 introduces you to weather basics.
Climates is an area's general pattern of atmospheric or weather conditions over long periods of time. as American writer and humorist mark twain once said, climates is what we expect, weather is what we gets.
average temperature and average precipitation are the two main factors determining climates. along with the closely related factors of latitude (distance from the equator)
and elevation (distance above sea level) solar radiation, the earth's rotation, global patterns of air and water movement, gases in the atmosphere, and the earth's surfaces affect average temperature and precipitation and thus determine the climates of an area. figure 5-2 depicts the earth's major climates zones, an important part of the earth's natural capital
地球有許多不同的氣候 天氣是一個地方在幾小時或幾天短期溫度、降雨雪、濕氣、風速、雲的覆蓋量和低空的其他物理狀態在几小时或几天。 補充10 on pp. s43-47介紹您風化基本。氣候在長的時期的是一個地區 大氣或天氣情况的。 作為美國作家和幽默作家馬克吐溫曾說，氣候是什麼我們期待，天氣是什麼我們得到。平均溫度和平均降雨雪是確定氣候的二個主要因素。 與緯度一起(從赤道的距離)和海拔(在海平面之上的距離)密切相關的因素。太阳辐射， 地球自轉、空氣和全球性水流動在大氣的樣式，氣體和地球表面影響平均溫度和降雨雪和因而確定區域的氣候。 5-2描述地球主要气候带， 地球的氣候重要部分。
氣候和天氣的差別
天氣，是指影響人類活動瞬間氣象特點的綜合狀況。比如說：『今天天氣很好，風和日麗晴空萬里。』。
氣候是指整個地球或其中某一地區一年或一段時期的氣象狀況的多年平均。比如，台灣南部，不只是夏季很熱，連春秋也很熱，冬季不冷。不僅一年如此，多年來都是如此。所以稱為『熱帶氣候』。雖然它們含義各不相同，但是又互相相關。
