Climate Lesson

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Climate Lesson

• Directions
• - Click Slide Show then View Show to view the
  power point.
• Record all notes and complete all tasks in your
  notebook.
• If a page doesnt have a directions box like
  this, just get the notes.

• What factors contribute to a regions climate?

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Table of Contents
Date Title Lesson
8/28 The 5 As 3
8/31 Geographers Tools 4
9/1 Internal Forces 5
9/3 External Forces 6
9/8 Climographs 7
1. Draw a line underneath wherever you left off
yesterday. 2. Write the title Climographs
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Major Climate Regions
Number in your notebook 1-8.

• 1. Tropical Wet Always hot and rainy (Amazon
  Rainforest)
• 2. Desert Less than 10 inches of rain per year
  (Phoenix, AZ)
• 3. Semiarid Receives between 10 and 16 inches
  of rain per year (West Texas)

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Major Climate Regions

• 4. Mediterranean Dry and hot summers, cool and
  rainy winters (Los Angeles, CA)
• 5. Humid Subtropical Hot and humid summers,
  mild to cool winters (Houston, TX)
• 6. Marine West Coast Warm ocean currents bring
  mild temperatures and constant rainfall (Seattle,
  WA).

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Major Climate Regions

• 7. Humid Continental Hot summers, cold
  winters. Located in the interior, far away from
  oceans. Four distinct seasons (St. Louis, MO).
• 8. Tundra Always cold. Flat, treeless lands
  around the Arctic Ocean. Very little rain. Land
  has permafrost. (Greenland)

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Climographs

• Definition ? Climographs are a graphic
  representation of the climate in a given area.
• 5 Themes of Geography Place
• What is it like there?
• You could use a climograph to tell you

COPY WHAT IS IN THE BOX
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Hilo, Hawaii Tropical Wet
COPY WHAT IS IN THE BOX

• Climographs include
• a line graph measuring average temperature and
• a bar graph measuring average rainfall for each
  month.

Temperature
Rainfall
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Houston Climograph - Humid Subtropic
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Las Vegas Climograph - Desert

• Task ? complete the questions below in your
  notebook
• How are the climates of Houston and Las Vegas
  different?
• How do you know?

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• Task ? complete the questions below in your
  notebook
• How are the climates of Houston and Las Vegas
  different?
• How do you know?

Houston Humid Subtropical
Las Vegas - Desert
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Climograph Help

• Task ? Complete the questions below in your
  notebook
• How would a farmer use a climograph?
• How would a tourist use a climograph?
• What is another profession in which people would
  find a climograph useful?

• How to read a climograph
• Use the key
• Line graph temperature
• Bar graph precipitation
• Does what youre thinking make sense?
• Check your axises

COPY WHAT IS IN THE BOX
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Climograph Assignment K/H

• You have been hired by the US military to analyze
  the climate of two cities, Baghdad and Houston.
• Major decisions will be made based on your
  analysis of the climate of both cities. He wants
  you to determine when is the best month to launch
  the attack.
• To do so you must analyze the climates of both
  cities and determine which month is the best time
  to launch the attack from Houston that will blow
  up a bunker in Baghdad.
• Your commander will present you with the
  following directions

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• How to Make a Climate Graph
• 1. Plot the data on RAIN (precipitation, shown in
  inches) as a bar graph by month.
• 2. Plot the data on TEMP (temperature in degrees
  Fahrenheit F) as a line graph by month.
• 3. Analyze the two graphs to describe the
  climates in these two locations?
• - What are the seasons like? When is it hot?
  When is it cooler?
• - When is it wet? When is it dry?
• - You may wish to use Handout 3 Describing a
  Climate Graph to help.

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