♥ Thursday, February 19, 2009 ♥

Yay! My turn to post! Heehee!

SO! Today we learnt how to answer questions about climographs! Before today's lesson, I looked at the example for Singapore's climograph and thought,"Oh no! It is impossible to memorise such a long paragraph full of information on that climograph!" Fret not! Because after the lesson, I've learnt that with a little bit of common sense and understanding, climograph questions are not all that scary!

Firstly, we have learnt that climate is all about how wet and warm the place is. Therefore, a climograph will show how wet and warm a particular place is!
These are some things to take note of when answering climograph questions:
1. Think of wet and warm. Be concise in what you want to say, do not write long sentences which would complicate the simple meaning you are trying to bring across.
2. Notice the shape of the graph of the temperature, those in the northern hemisphere would have a different shape of those in the southern hemisphere.
3. Check for any abnormalies! For example if the shape of the temperature graph does not fit or correspond to those of its seasons.
4. Don't just use wet, dry, warm and cold. Add adjectives to show how wet or dry like MILDLY wet or VERY dry or INTENSE precipitation.
With these points to take note of when writing, your answer will be more precise and have less mistakes!
That's all for the points!

Today, we have also learnt that the shapes of the temperature graph is affected by which hemisphere it is in and the season too. The climographs of countries in the northern hemisphere have a "n" shape while those in the southern hemisphere has a "u" shape. Also, the amount of precipitation affects the temperature. With little precipitation, the temperature would be high. What I've found interesting is the part on Mcmurdo station. It seems that its temperature graph is flatter when it is between April to September. This is because it is positioned such that when the earth rotates on its axis, it will not recieve any sunlight at all thus the temperature remains almost the same because it has no season as it is not recieving any sunlight.

I have certainly been enlightened today because the climograph question originally got me worried since there was so much information needed in that short paragraph. I was worried if I would be able to remember what kind of information to include inside or whether there was anything extra that I was writing into the answer. However, after the lesson, I got a better understanding of how to answer the question and why I must include this answer. Now it seems a lot easier because after writing something, I can easily link it to another piece of information on the climograph and include it in and so on. :D

Haha! Now everyone! Comment on this blog entry the climograph description for the different countries! Yay!

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4 Comments:

At February 19, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Joel! said…

Hello class, this Joel and his group doing on Tokyo (Japan).

Tokyo has a fairly wide range of temperature throughout the year. With its highest (25°C) in Aug, and lowest (5°C) in Dec/Jan.

Tokyo recieves a fairly high amount of precipitation throughout the entire year, with the highest (210mm) in Sept/Oct, and lowest (50mm) in Dec/Jan.

As you can see in the climograph, there is a trend between the temperature and the precipitation level of Tokyo. During the first half of the year, both temperature and precipitation increases steadily. And for the back half of the year, both of them decrease.

However, there is an abnormalie (sp) in the amount of precipitation in Jul/Aug as there is a sudden drop in the precipitation level. This might be due to the temperature being the highest during that few months, in the whole year.

In conclusion, Tokyo has a warm temperate climate, is fully humid, and generally has a hot summer-like temperature.

Thank you. (:
At February 21, 2009 at 9:30 PM, blahhh! said…

Hi,this is our group's climograph doing on Yakutsk, Russia.

Yakutsk, Russia has a temperature that fluctuates from -45°C to 20°C. It increases from January, peaking at 20°C in July before decreasing till December.

Yakutsk is a dry climate and recieves an even amount of precipitation throughout the year which ranges from 10mm to 50mm.

Dryer months like January, February and December recieves about 10mm of rain.

Wetter months like June to August recieves an average monthly rainfall of 50mm.

This climatograph is typical of a polar region.
At February 22, 2009 at 5:54 AM, i.am.heah said…

I do not know who it is writing the post, but I am very glad you have discovered that there is no need for you to memorise! Remember what was said in the beginning of the term, if you ever find the need to memorise, stop! Come and ask me to learn how to understand the topic or ideas.

Seeing how you've become enlightened with regards to climograph, well done!

One thing, I must apologise for the poor handwriting, it's anomalies, not abnormalies. No such word for the latter.
At February 23, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Unknown said…

Bombay: Bombay has a onstant temperature throughout the whole year which ranges from 25 to 30 degree celcius. There is a pattern in the temperature, where the lowest temperatures occur at the start and the end of the year while the higher temperature is during the mid year. There is however an anomaly in the months of July and August when there is a in the temperature and a rise again before it drops at the end of the year. This is due to the monsoon rain(: As for the amount of precipitation in Bombay, there is a distinct wet and dry season. The dry seasons are from January to May, and October to December, when the amount of precipitation ranges from 0mm to 50mm. The wet season is from June to September, with the amount of precipitation ranging from 250mm to 650mm. There is also a pattern in the amount of precipitation, which is directly proportional to the temperature except for the anomaly in July for the temperature. This climograph depicts a tropical climate.

08IP03! (:

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