资料题：Arizona is characterized by（　）。

Arizona has been attracting health seekers for decades.It has many varieties of climate, ranging from the low, hot, dry desert country in the southwest to the high, cold wood region in the north, a difference of ten thousand feet or so in elevation.At one place, the temperature goes as high as 125 F in summer and at another, as low as 25 F below in winter.Here, the rainfall is as little as two to five inches and there, as high as thirty inches.But sunshine covers the whole state, 90 percent in the sunniest places to 73 percent in the cloudiest.While some people sunbathe in the south, others are skiing in the north which in some years gets snowfalls as heavy a seventy inches.In the south, the growing season is constant,while in the north, it may be as little as three months, and generally with every 1000-foot rise in elevation (上升) the growing season is reduced by three weeks.One can find almost any type of climate between the snow capped San Francisco Peaks and the dry deserts along the Mexican border.Somewhere, someplace will suit anybody.The number of people who have come to Arizona"to die"，and are still living, is large.