Chapter 20

1. Chapter 20 Section 2 Climate and Vegetation

2. Tropical Climate • Tropical Rain Forests • Located near the equator • Wet and warm weather • Large variety of vegetation • Shrubs, ferns, mosses, vines • Palm trees • Leafy canopy

3. Tropical Climate • Crops and Cutting • Heavy rainfall leaches nutrients from the soil • Dissolves and carries away • Variety of cash crops are grown on plantations • Bananas, pineapples, cocoa, tea, coffee • Palm oil, rubber, cotton • Farmers and lumberjacks have clear-cut tropical rain forests • Destroying animal habitat and killing the forests

4. Tropical Climate • Savanna • Grasslands with few trees • Cover almost half the continent! • Seasonal rainfall • Wet = 6 months of daily rain • Dry = 6 months of scorching dry heat • Harmattan • Hot dry northeast trade wind • Serengeti • Large savanna plain • Home to many awesome animals!! • Gnus • Zebras • Hyenas • Gazelles • Lions • Giraffes • Cheetahs

5. Dry Climates • Steppe • Dry, cooler grasslands with shrubs • Cover the southern tip of Africa • and the land just below the Sahara in the north • called the Sahel

6. Dry Climates • Desertification • Climate change is drying out the Sahel and turning it into desert • The Sahara is growing!

7. Dry Climates • Desert • Namib and Kalahari deserts stretch across southern Africa • Hot and dry climates

8. Moderate Climates • Coast • Mild climate producing arable land • Comfortable places • Highland • Cooler mountainous regions • Mt. Kilimanjaro has snow! • Global warming is destroying the heralded “Snows of Kilimanjaro”