Multiple choice

Which one of the following regions has a Mediterranean type of climate?

  1. Cape Town region of South Africa

  2. Great Plains of North America

  3. North - Eastern Australia

  4. Southern Algeria

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Explanation

 The Mediterranean climate is characterised by a dry summer, a mild humid winter and abundant sunshine, about 90 percent of the possible sunshine in summer and 50% to 60% even during the rainy winter season. This happens because of shift of pressure belts as a result of which westerlies bring winter rain. Mediterranean climates are found 30° and 40°N and latitudes on the western sides of the continents. These climates are found in five regions of the world; The borderlands of the Mediterranean Sea (north of the Mediterranean Sea from Portugal to Turkey and beyond the Iranian Highlands; the southern borderland includes Morocco, northern Algeria, and Tunisia and north of Bengasi in Libya) the Central and California coast in the United States of America; Central Chile; the Capetown area of South Africa; and Southern and South-western coasts of Australia.