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Reading a Climograph.
Use the map and chart on pgs. 14 and 15 to answer the following questions.
1. What do the letters on the climograph (and map) refer to? _________________________
For example: A city and country that has a subarctic climate is
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2. What do the colors on the climograph represent? ____________________________
For Example: The color red corresponds to with the ____________________ climate
on the map.
3. What does the curved line on the climograph represent? ___________________
For example: The temperature in the rainforests is mostly _________________ all
year.
4. What do the bars on the climograph represent? ______________________________
For example: In January the Mediterranean climate gets ____________of rain, and
in July it gets _____________ of rain.
Answer the following questions.
1. What climate on average receives the most amount of rain per year?
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2. What climate receives the most rain in a single month?
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3. Which climate on average receives the least amount of rain per year?
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4.Which climates have months where there is less than 1 inch of rain?
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5.Which climate has the greatest temperature change throughout the year?
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6. Which climate has the same average temperature throughout the year?
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7. Which climate has the coldest temperatures? _____________________________________
Comparing Climates.
Complete the chart below with information from the climographs.
Temperature
High/ Low
Rainfall
High/Low
General location
Marine
Subarctic
Answer the following questions in complete sentences using the information
from the chart above.
1. What do the two climates have in common? Give 1-2 examples.
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2. What is different about the two climates? Give 1-2 examples.
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Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1. What climate do we live in? How would you describe our climate?
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2. Have you been to other any climate regions? Name and describe 1 or 2 other
climates that you have been.
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