Unit 9: CLIMATE AND VEGETATION

1.- CLIMATE

1.1.- Equatorial Climate

- The global distribution of the Equatorial Climate

- Characteristics

-Reasons for Singapores high temperature

- Reasons for Singapores high rainfall

1.2.- Tropical desert climate

-Global distribution of tropical deserts

- Characteristics

-Precipitation in tropical deserts

2.- ECOSYSTEMS

2.1.- What is an ecosystem?

2.2.- Tropical rainforest

-Characteristics of the vegetation

- Relationship between natural vegetation and climate.

- Relationship between tropical rainforest vegetation and the

soil.

-Animals in the tropical rainforest ecosystem.

- Keeping a tropical rainforest as valuable.

- The value of tropical rainforest for human activities.

2.3.- The tropical desert ecosystem

-The vegetations characteristics and its adaptation to climate

and soils.

- How do animals survive in a tropical desert?

- What opportunities do tropical deserts provide for human

activities?