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Geography · Grade 6

Climate Zones and Biomes

Learners separate weather from climate, read climographs, and investigate the controls that make places hot or cold, wet or dry: latitude, altitude, distance from the sea, ocean currents, winds and mountains. They classify climates with a simplified Köppen key and connect each climate to the biome that grows there, locating rainforests, deserts and boreal forests on the world map.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 95 minutes
  • Climate and biomes check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, pin a map, pick map regions, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Distinguish weather from climate and read a climograph's temperature and precipitation data.
  • Explain how latitude, altitude, distance from the sea, ocean currents, prevailing winds and mountains control a place's climate.
  • Classify a climate into a major zone (tropical, dry, temperate, continental, polar) using temperature and rainfall data.
  • Link major biomes to their climates and plant and animal adaptations, and locate examples on a world map.

Lessons

  1. Weather or climate? 6 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  2. What controls climate? 6 steps4 practiceabout 25 min
  3. Sorting the world into climate zones 6 steps3 practiceabout 22 min
  4. Biomes: where climate meets life 6 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  5. Climate and biomes check 10 questions at the end

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Games to practice with

  • Globe ExplorerSpin a real 3D globe, flip to the flat map, and find continents, oceans and countries.
  • Pin the PlanetDrag the pin onto wonders, cities and exact latitude and longitude points.
  • Route PlannerFind the shortest way around town, dodge closed roads, and measure trips with a scale bar.

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