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TEMPERATE CONTINENTAL (STEPPE) CLIMATE.□
DISTRIBUTION.
◇ Bordering deserts, away from mediterranean regions and in the interiors of continents are
Temperate grasslands.◇ In the northern hemisphere, grasslands are far
more extensive and continental.
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In Eurasia they are called the
steppes.
◇ In North america, the grasslands are
quite extensive and called
Prairies.
◇ In Southern hemisphere due to narrowness of temperate portions of continents, grasslands are
less continental.
CLIMATE.
◇
Temperature.
• Located in
heart of continents means that they have little maritime influence.
• Summers are very warm -
66° in winnipeg for july.
•
winters cold due to distance from sea.
• In southern hemisphere the climate is
never severe.
• Annual temperature is great because of Continentality.
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Precipitation.
• In the continental position the annual rain of
steppe climate can be expected to be light.
• Average rainfall may be taken as about
20 inches.
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SOURCE -
G.C.LEONG.
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