Question

Match each description of Asia's climate with the correct region.

1. short summers

2. plentiful rain

3. tropical weather

4. cold desert

- central Asia
- southeastern Asia
- northern Asia
- eastern Asia

Answer 1

Central Asia has a distinctive continental arid and semi-arid climate with hot, cloudless, dry summers and moist, relatively warm winters in the south and cold winters with severe frosts in the north.

It lies within the tropics, with southern areas close to the equator, and so it's warm all year round. Average temperatures are around 27°C (80°F). The climate varies significantly across the region of Southeast Asia. This makes it a year-round travel destination

North Asia is a subregion of Eurasia, consisting of the Asian territory of Russia, includes the Urals, Siberia and the Far East. The climate in the north of Asia is continental with a pronounced contrast of temperatures and very cold winters.

It lies within the tropics, with southern areas close to the equator, and so it's warm all year round. Average temperatures are around 27°C (80°F). The climate varies significantly across the region of Southeast Asia. This makes it a year-round travel destination.

Answer 2

Southeast Asia - Mostly tropical climate

- This is a region that has constant summers, high precipitation, and very diverse flora and fauna.

Central Asia - Humid, subtropical, and highland areas

- Central Asia is a place where we have a collision of multiple climates, so from place to place it varies, and we have the arid steps and deserts, rainy mountainsides, vast coniferous wet forests...

Northeastern Asia - Humid continental climate

- This region is heavily influenced by the cold air masses from Siberia on one side, and wet humid air masses from the sea on the other side.

- Western Asia - Mostly arid climate

- Most of Western Asia falls into the subtropical climate region, most of the landscape is formed by deserts and semi-deserts, even to an extreme extent like in the Arabian Peninsula where there's not a single river that flows for the whole year.