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Geography - Weather, Climate, Natural Vegetation - Coggle Diagram
Geography - Weather, Climate, Natural Vegetation
TRF/hot desert
TRF
Tropical rainforests are areas with 2000-10,000mm of precipitation per year.
The tropical rainforests like the Amazon and Congo are not in the north or south and are along the Equator none go north of the tropic of Cancer and none go south of the tropic of Capricorn. They are along the Indian, Atlantic and pacific oceans and are in countries like India, Brazil, the DRC and Indonesia. Continents with large amounts of rainforests are Africa south America, Oceania and central America and Asia.
Hot Desert
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Deserts are along the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and don’t stray too far north or south. The Atacama is along the pacific in Peru, Chile and Bolivia. The deserts are on all continents apart from Europe
Clouds
High level - usually composed of ice crystals and have a base between 5,500 and 14,000m above seal level
Mid level - usually composed of water droplets and ice crystals and have a base between 2,000 and 7000m
Low level - composed of water droplets although cumulonimbus clouds include ice crystals and have a base below 2000m
Cloud cover is measured in 8s (OKSTAS), if the entire sky is cloudy it would be 8/8 or 8/oktas. If there is too much fog, smoke, dust, pollution and the sky cannot be seen it would be recorded as obscured.
Latin Meanings
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Stratus means layer and refers to the group of clouds that form in big sheets covering the entire sky
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Definitions
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Weather is the hour to hour, day to day state of the atmosphere. It is short term and can be localised in relatively small areas e.g. it rains in one part of a town but not the whole area.