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A group of islands
Southeast Asia includes numerous archipelagos that connect Asia to Australia and other Pacific island nations. |
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The average condition of the weather at a place usually over a period of months or years as defined by temperature, wind velocity and precipitation.
the Mediterranean region has a warm, subtripocal climate. |
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A continuous mass of land, none of six or seven great divisions of land on the planet.
South America is one of Earth's seven continents. |
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The height above the level of the sea.
Europe has relativity low elevations, except for the Alpine mountain system that runs west-to-east. |
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A tropical or subtropical grassland containing scattered trees and drought resistant growth
Below the Sahara the continent receives more rain, and the landscape gradually changes to savanna. |
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A belt of mostly coniferous, or needle-bearing evergreen trees, which begins in Scandinavian and covers much of Siberia.
The taiga is the primary source of Europe's lumber. |
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