🥔 How do we Classify Climates? Crash Course Geography #13

From gnocchi and salchipapas to potato chips and french fries, it seems like every cuisine around the world has embraced the potato! And this humble tuber did not originate in Ireland or France, but near Lake Titicaca near the border of what is now known as Bolivia and Peru 7000-9000 years ago! So today, we're going to trace this history of the potato as we teach you about climate, how we classify it using the Köppen system, and the ways humans have employed their geo-literacy to adapt to their surroundings.

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[camilatrigoso]

Hey! I'm Bolivian and I loved the clothes of Andean people in the animation. It was very accurate.

[franbalcal]

Well at school in Peru they teach you this but use a different system, using indigenous terms rather than Spanish "Costa or Chala" for the sea level, then Yunga higher up, then Quechua, then Suni or Jalca, Puna, Janca (the highest point) and then one the other side of the andes, on the eastern side where the amazon rain forest begings, there was Rupa rupa or high jungle and then Omagua or low jungle.

[HexerPsy]

Watching stars and noticing the connection between clouds and rainfall later in the season... Its amazing - but also makes you wonder what other connecting they made that did not mean anything...

[karolinemathildeaasen]

Potatos can grow above the arctic circle. We do so in northern Norway :)

[nanapinheiro]

I’m just 10 years old, last year i hated science, but wen i started tô watch your channel, I loved science, so, thank you
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[ysraelm.dumadara]

Good luck and more power to Crash Course!

[Salsmachev]

The Irish Potato Famine had almost nothing to do with potatoes. It occurred because English landowners in Ireland were exploiting Irish peasants to the point that all the Irish had left was potatoes. Then when the potato crop failed, the English continued to export food (food produced by the starving Irish peasants, mind you) rather than avert the famine. The failure of the potato crop was the inciting incident of the famine, but the social/economic conditions of expropriation were necessary to turn a survivable crop failure into a lethal famine. Famines rarely happen because of natural disasters. Natural disasters merely reveal the precarity inherent in exploitative economic systems in which the workers do not reap what they sow.

[brainstormingsharing]

Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

[HessionDrasha]

Will the next video describe the attributes of the different climates? :) somewhere that doesn't go bellow 10 degrees in the winter, and doesn't go above 25 degrees in the summer would be the ideal place to live. But that also has enough rainfall for deciduos forests.

[silesiaball]

I think it depends on country. In Poland we use Okołowicz's classification.

[albertakesson]

Wow, this was super handy for me to grasp climate!

[OleksiyPyrozhkov]

Thank you for getting the map of Ukraine correctly. Hugely important in geography course.

[samuelolteanu]

The titicaca lake origin is so funny and memorable.

[youraveragepepa]

thank you so much for this it helped the better understanding!

[isimerias]

I thought el niño conditions brought rain to Peru. Cold upwelling releases less moisture and heat into the atmosphere (similar to northern California) and therefore during el niño the eastern pacific is warmer and releases more moisture into the air. Whereas la niña brings drought to Peru. Am I missing something

For the Chilean side, add these peoples: Atacama (Kunza, Likanataí), Chinchorro, Chango and Diaguita.

[Rob.DB.]

I love this channel & how they teach us, but how widespread is that pattern on her shirt? I say this because my wife had that exact thing over twenty years ago & it's very distinct & I for one, tend to remember weird things, like this for some reason.

3:20. Please notice, this distinctions happen only around the Equator, by the side of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela. Brazil is another language, culture and climate, and the rest of *South* America a whole array of different climates. *Latin* America is a cultural entity, which includes all countries that speak languages issued from Latin: almost every country from Mexico downwards.
Chilean here. Currently in Argentina. We have a long stretch of the Andes right between us, they conform Chile's identity, and we don't use such altitude distinctions.
Just in case you don't know, the tropical part of Argentina is very far away from the Andes, and Chile has no tropical part whatsoever.

[michaelmayhem]

It's hysterical that it's necessary to explain the difference between weather and climate.

[shockingheaven]

One of my favorite assignments when I was in uni was studying data from meteorological stations and looking at the classifications of those zones