Tropical

Description:
This climate zone is called Tropical for a reason: It has high temperatures all year round. It’s an ideal place to settle if you like hot temperatures.

Things to Compare:

• It includes and surrounds the equator.
• It’s the warmest in temperature of all the climate zones.
• The Tropical climate zone takes up about 36% of Earth’s land mass.

Temperate

Description:
With moderate temperatures, it rests in between Polar and Tropical climate zones (land & temperature).

Things to Compare:

• It has 4 seasons, unlike Tropical & Polar.
• It covers parts of North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America.
• The Temperate climate zone takes up about 26% of the Earth’s land mass.

Polar

Description:
The coldest of them all– with temperatures below freezing, this zone primarily consists of the north and south pole.

Things to Compare:

• It’s the farthest from the equator/tropical zone, and as a result, it’s the coldest.
• The Polar climate zone takes up about 14% of the Earth’s land mass.

Warning!
The percentages of land mass on the 3 climate zones are from different sources– as a result, all the climate zones’ percentages adding up will NOT end up at 100%. I couldn’t find the land masses of the climate zones from the same source.