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    This document discusses the climates of Earth. It defines climate as the average atmospheric conditions of a place, versus weather as conditions at a specific time. There are five main climatic zones - two hot zones around the tropics, two cold zones inside the polar circles, and two temperate zones between. Climate is represented by lines on maps showing temperature, precipitation, pressure, and wind patterns. Several climates are described - equatorial with year-round heat and rain, tropical with wet/dry seasons, desert with daytime heat but little rain, oceanic with mild temperatures and rain, continental with cold winters/hot summers and varying rain.

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    This document discusses the climates of Earth. It defines climate as the average atmospheric conditions of a place, versus weather as conditions at a specific time. There are five main climatic zones - two hot zones around the tropics, two cold zones inside the polar circles, and two temperate zones between. Climate is represented by lines on maps showing temperature, precipitation, pressure, and wind patterns. Several climates are described - equatorial with year-round heat and rain, tropical with wet/dry seasons, desert with daytime heat but little rain, oceanic with mild temperatures and rain, continental with cold winters/hot summers and varying rain.

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    This document discusses the climates of Earth. It defines climate as the average atmospheric conditions of a place, versus weather as conditions at a specific time. There are five main climatic zones - two hot zones around the tropics, two cold zones inside the polar circles, and two temperate zones between. Climate is represented by lines on maps showing temperature, precipitation, pressure, and wind patterns. Several climates are described - equatorial with year-round heat and rain, tropical with wet/dry seasons, desert with daytime heat but little rain, oceanic with mild temperatures and rain, continental with cold winters/hot summers and varying rain.

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    THE CLIMATES OF THE

    EARTH

    A) What is the difference between climate


    and weather ?
    -Climate: it is the average state of the
    atmosphere at a specific place
    - Weather: it is the state of the
    atmosphere at a given time and place

    B) The climatic zones


    There are five great climatic zones on the
    Earth:

    - One hot zone situated between the two tropics

    - Two cold zones one in each hemisphere, located


    inside the polar circles

    -Two temperate zones one in each hemisphere,


    stretched between the tropics and the polar circles
    C) Climate elements

    It´s represented on a
    Element It´s measured with
    map by

    Temperature

    Lines called
    Thermometer ISOTHERMS

    Lines called
    Precipitations
    ISOHYETS

    Pluviometer

    Lines called
    Pressure
    ISOBARS

    Barometer

    Weather vane
    (direction of the
    wind)
    Winds

    Anemometer
    ( speed)
    D) The climates of the Earth

    Name of the Temperatures Precipitations


    climate

    Equatorial Constant very hot temperatures Very abundant precipitations all the
    climate (25ºC ) No seasons year ( 2000 mm)

    Tropical Constant very hot temperatures Very abundant precipitations in a


    climate (18-20ºC) period ( wet season) ( 1000 mm)

    Very hot temperatures:


    Desert climate - The day is hot Scarce precipitations ( 200 mm)
    - The night is cold

    Oceanic climate Mild temperatures Abundant precipitations (800 mm)

    Continental Winter: very cold Summer: humid


    climate Summer: very hot (600 mm)

    Summer: very dry


    Mediterranean Winter: mild
    Winter: it rains
    climate Summer: very hot
    (800 mm)

    It’s very cold. In winter (-50ºC)


    Polar climate There are no precipitations
    There is no summer

    High mountain
    Temperatures are cold Abundant precipitations. It snows
    climate

    Some examples of climate diagrams

    Sierra Nevada Málaga

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