The Amazon rainforest, the African Savannah, the sands of the Sahara, the prairies of North America , the forests of Siberia, the ice sheet of Antarctica. It can be easy living in cities, as most of us do, to neglect how much land is on our planet. The continents and islands of our planet cover almost thirty percent of the globe, and most of that fraction is empty wilderness. What determines how these areas look is a combination of topography, and climate. We’ll now focus on the effect that climate has on these areas, and rank each climate zone by size, in this, the latest article in my Climate Casebook.
What are the Biggest and Smallest Climate Zones?
