单项选择题
| The climate of any place is the kind of
weather it usually has over a long time. The kinds of homes we live in, the
clothes we wear, even the foods we eat depend on the climate of the place where
we live. Climate is a complicated pattern; it is affected by many things. Nearness to the equator is important. If you live near one of the poles, you live in a cold climate, for you do not get as much or as direct sunshine as you would get farther from the poles. If you live near the equator, you live in a warm or very hot climate, for this is the region where the sun shines almost straight down. How much rain or snow falls makes a great difference to the climate. You may live in a hot, dry land, where little rain falls. This will be a desert. Its climate is quite different from that of a rainforest, which may be the same distance from the equator but where rain falls almost every day. The amount of rain that falls - or snow, in a cold land - depends upon the winds, upon the surrounding mountains, and upon the currents in nearby seas. Rainfall depends on many different things. |