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CLIMATE OF THE PLANET - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Weather: It refers to short-term changes in the atmosphere.
        
        Climate: It describes what the weather is like over a long period of time in a specific area.
  - - -  Atmospheric pressure is the force that exerts the air per unit area above the surface from the earth.
        
         The wind is the movement of air masses on a large scale. It is classified by its speed and
        address.
        
         The humidity of the air is due to the steam water, which comes from the evaporation of the ocean, other bodies of water such as rivers or lakes, and the vegetation.
        
         Precipitation is the fall of water from the atmosphere to the Earth, in the form of rain, drizzle, snow, sleet and hail.
    - -  Latitude: Latitude refers to the distance of a location on Earth's surface from the equator in relation to the North and South poles.
        
        1- Intertropical zone. (or warm, torrid or tropical). It is the fringe between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn (between latitudes 23 ° N and 23 ° S).
        
        2- Temperate zone. It is the area that goes
        from the tropics to the polar circles.
        
        3- Polar zone. They are the extreme areas of the planet, bounded by Arctic polar circles and Antarctic, which accommodate large layers of ice or tundra (frozen plains). It goes from 66 to 90 ° latitude. Its climate is cold.
        
         Altitude: It is defined as how high a location is above sea level ( a city in the
        mountains has a high altitude)
      - “EL NIÑO” PHENOMENON
        
        It presents changes in the temperature of the Pacific Ocean, when the ocean water cools or heats up by 1 to 3 degrees Celsius from the normal temperature at the same time of the year.
        
        In general, the water in the western Pacific, near the coasts of Japan and Australia, is hot, while the water near the coasts of South America is cold at the surface.
        
        The unusual warming of the sea waters gives rise to the formation of clouds, which generate abundant rainfall on the coasts and even, if they are stronger, in the continental interior of Ecuador, northern Peru and southern Colombia, causing extreme flooding of the rivers.