--- title: Climate zones — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Climate zones», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Weather changes from day to day, but climate is the usual weather of a place, measured over many years. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Climate zones # Climate zones Lesson 16 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/16-climate-zones/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/0/) — Weather changes from day to day, but climate is the usual weather of a place, measured over many years. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/1/) — Near the equator the Sun's rays strike the ground most directly, so it is hot all year; near the poles the rays come in at a low slant and spread their heat thin, so it is cold. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/2/) — So the Earth has broad belts called climate zones: hot tropical zones near the equator, cold polar zones near the poles, and temperate zones in between with four seasons. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/3/) — Mountains and seas change the climate too: it gets colder the higher you climb, and places by the sea have milder winters and cooler summers than places far inland. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/5/) — Weather is what is happening now; climate is the usual weather over many years. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/6/) — The tropics near the equator are hot all year because the Sun's rays fall on them most directly. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/7/) — The polar zones are cold all year because the Sun's rays strike them at a low slant. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/8/) — The temperate zones lie between the tropics and the poles and have four seasons. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/9/) — A desert is a place that gets very little rain or snow; it can be hot like the Sahara or cold like Antarctica. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/10/) — The air gets colder the higher you climb, so high peaks can have snow even near the equator. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/11/) — The sea warms up and cools down slowly, so it makes the climate of coasts milder. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/12/) — Plants and animals are adapted to their climate, like polar bears to the Arctic and camels to the desert. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/13/) — A camel can go many days without drinking and copes with great heat; its hump stores fat, not water. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/14/) — The seasons come from the tilt of the Earth's axis, not from the Earth being nearer to or farther from the Sun. - ← previous: [Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/15-weather/) - next →: [Air and why we need it](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/17-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)