What plants grow in temperate zones?
Temperate zone, a climatological concept, refers to the climate zone between the subtropics and the polar circle. Temperate can be divided into broad and narrow sense. Broadly speaking, all regions except the frigid zone and the tropics belong to the temperate zone, so the subtropical zone and the subarctic zone both belong to the category of the broad temperate zone. The narrow temperate zone does not include subtropical and subarctic zones. It has a temperate climate with a large temperature difference between winter and summer. The clear temperature changes in the four seasons are the most significant feature of the temperate climate.
Temperate climate is the most widespread climate type in the world. Due to the wide geographical distribution and complex types of temperate climates, it creates a good climate environment for the biological world and forms a rich and colorful animal and plant world. In terms of plant types, there are summer green broad-leaved forests, coniferous forests and mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests. There are also grasslands, semi-deserts and deserts in the interior of the continent. Animals that are good at running and flying live in grassland areas; large carnivores live in broad-leaved forests; and some cold-resistant animals live in coniferous forests.
Extratropical cyclones are approximately elliptical air vortices that appear in mid-to-high latitudes and have a central air pressure lower than the surrounding areas. They are one of the important weather systems that affect large-scale weather changes. The average diameter of extratropical cyclones is 1,000 kilometers, with small ones ranging from hundreds of kilometers to large ones up to 3,000 kilometers or more. The cyclone moves eastward with the high-altitude westerly airflow, with a warm front in the front and a cold front in the rear. The south side of the fluctuation at the junction of the two is the warm area.
The entire life history of an extratropical cyclone from formation to development to death generally takes 2-6 days. Sometimes 2-5 extratropical cyclones will form one after another on the same front, moving forward from west to east, which is called a "cyclone family". Extratropical cyclones have an important impact on weather changes in mid- and high-latitude areas. It is windy and rainy, sometimes accompanied by heavy rain or strong convective weather, and sometimes the maximum wind near the ground can reach level 10 or above.