Wet places, dry places

When we talk about the weather, we talk about the temperature - that is, how cold or hot it is.We also talk about rain. Some places have rain almost every day. Other places do not get a single drop for several years. Cold places get snow instead of rain. The kind of weather a place gets over a long period of time is called its climate.
Our world can be divided into regions which share the same kind of climate. For example, regions near the Equator are hot, but they usually get plenty of rain. But near the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, There are hot deserts which get hardly any rain. Between these deserts and the icy polar regions are the temperate zones. Some temperate zones are rainy. Others are dry.