Climate Lesson
What factors contribute to a region’s climate?
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 doesn’t have a directions box like this, just get the notes.
Table of ContentsDate Title Lesson #
8/28 The 5 A’s 3
8/31 Geographer’s 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”
Major Climate Regions
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)
Number in your notebook 1-8.
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).
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)
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
Hilo, Hawaii – Tropical Wet
• Climographs include…
1. a line graph measuring average temperature and…
2. a bar graph measuring average rainfall for each month.
Rainfall
Temperature
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Las Vegas Climograph - Desert
Task complete the questions below in your notebook…
1. How are the climates of Houston and Las Vegas different?
2. How do you know?
Houston – Humid Subtropical
Las Vegas - Desert
Task complete the questions below in your notebook…
1. How are the climates of Houston and Las Vegas different?
2. How do you know?
Climograph Help
• How to read a climograph1. Use the key
2. Line graph = temperature
3. Bar graph = precipitation
4. Does what you’re thinking make sense?
5. Check your axises
Task Complete the questions below in your notebook…
1. How would a farmer use a climograph?
2. How would a tourist use a climograph?
3. What is another profession in which people would find a climograph useful?
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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…
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.
