Chapter 8, Section 2

1. The climate regions represented in Latin America are tropical wet, tropical dry, humid subtropical, steppe, desert, mediterranean, marine west coast, and highland.

2. Areas in Latin America may get changes in climate in specific climate regions because of sudden incline, causing the area to get colder and drier. Also, along the windward side of the continent, new breezes may come in to warm and cool the area while on the leeward side, the area may get drier and hotter.

Creative Writing: On September 17th, my family and I went on I hiking trip up one of the shorter mountains on the Andes. At about noon we drove to an area right in the middle of the tierra fria, around nine thousand feet above sea level, where we could only see evergreen trees every three hundred meters or so, but dense shrub and small plants everywhere. For the next few hours, it was quite cold and dry. After about a mile, we had clearly passed the tree line and there was only grass to be seen, but the cold and dryness of the area could always be felt. By about six o'clock, we had crossed the puna and the snow line and it had gotten to cold for my family, or the vegetation to go further, so we turned back, keeping a quick pace down the mountain, and got back to the car around ten-thirty.