Climatic regions of the world The world has many different climates depending on where you are....

Climatic regions of the Climatic regions of the worldworld

The world has many different climates depending on where you are.

Remember – the climate of a place is the average or normal weather that a place gets. This is the average over the last 30 years.

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Equatorial rainforests

Hot deserts

Tundra

Mediterranean




are located along the Equator.

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Precip

Climate graphs show us what the average weather for a place is like over 12 months.We can see the temperature over the whole year and also how much precipitation there was and when in the year it fell.

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Temperature figures are plotted on a line graph according to the temperature side of the graph.

Each point is placed in the centre of the column for that month then joined with a best fitting straight line.

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Precipitation figures are plotted on a bar graph according to the precipitation side of the graph.

Each bar fills the the column for that month.

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Describing a climate from a climate Describing a climate from a climate graph.graph.When describing any climate from a climate graph we When describing any climate from a climate graph we

must go through the following steps each time :must go through the following steps each time :

TemperatureTemperature the maximummaximum temperature and the month it occurred in. the minimumminimum temperature and the month it occurred in. the range of temperaturerange of temperature , ie (max-min). are there clear seasonsseasons eg summer/winter with appropriate descriptions e.g. very hot summers/mild winters.

PrecipitationPrecipitation

the total total precipitation for the whole year (add up each month’s amount).

the patternpattern throughout the year e.g. are there periods of drought or very wet seasons in the year.




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To describe a climate we must go through these same steps every time. We need to remember to describe the temperature and the precipitation over the year.

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To describe a climate we must go through the same steps every time. We need to remember to describe the temperature and the precipitation over the year.

Total precipitation

Annual pattern

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Tundra

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