North America's Climate and People.
People of all physical differences have relocated to the United States. There are all kinds of races living in North America. In the United States alone there are several, from several different countries. It truly is the melting pot.
People from Europe, Asia, and Africa have moved to North America, so there are all sorts of different people. Demographically, North America is a racially and ethnically diverse continent.
Its three main racial groups are Caucasians, Mestizos and Blacks. There is a significant minority of Indigenous Americans and Asians among other less numerous groups.
Its three main racial groups are Caucasians, Mestizos and Blacks. There is a significant minority of Indigenous Americans and Asians among other less numerous groups.
The climate of North America can be broadly divided into eight different climate types:
Deciduous forest - Four distinct seasons with warm summers and cold, wet winters.
The trees shed their leaves in autumn. Coniferous forest - Also known as Taiga, cold and dry with snowy winters and warmer summers. Mediterranean - Warm to high temperatures with rainfall in the autumn and winter months. Grassland - Hot summers and cold winters with above average
rainfall. Tundra - This area is characterised by a layer of permafrost (soil that has remained below freezing for at least two years. Winters are very cold, summers are warm and there is little rainfall.
Alpine/mountain - Cold, windy and snowy. It is winter from October to May with temperatures below freezing, while summer is from June to September where the temperature can reach 15°C.
Rainforest - High temperatures and high rainfall throughout the year. Desert - Warm to high temperatures with very little rainfall.
Deciduous forest - Four distinct seasons with warm summers and cold, wet winters.
The trees shed their leaves in autumn. Coniferous forest - Also known as Taiga, cold and dry with snowy winters and warmer summers. Mediterranean - Warm to high temperatures with rainfall in the autumn and winter months. Grassland - Hot summers and cold winters with above average
rainfall. Tundra - This area is characterised by a layer of permafrost (soil that has remained below freezing for at least two years. Winters are very cold, summers are warm and there is little rainfall.
Alpine/mountain - Cold, windy and snowy. It is winter from October to May with temperatures below freezing, while summer is from June to September where the temperature can reach 15°C.
Rainforest - High temperatures and high rainfall throughout the year. Desert - Warm to high temperatures with very little rainfall.
North America, extending to within 10° of latitude of both the equator and the North Pole, embraces every climatic zone, from tropical rain forest and savanna on the lowlands of Central America to areas of permanent ice cap in central Greenland. Subarctic and tundra climates prevail in N Canada and N Alaska, and desert and semiarid conditions are found in interior regions cut off by high mountains from rain-bearing westerly winds. However, a high proportion of the continent has temperate climates very favorable to settlement and agriculture.