Study Guide
Students must be able to:
1.Explain what causes day and night.
2.Explain what causes the different seasons
3.Identify what hemisphere gets more direct rays from the sun during our Summer months.
4.Identify what hemisphere gets more direct rays from the sun during our winter months.
5. Correct your climate graph study guide by using the key below. Make sure you can read each climate graph.
Map 1
Temperature: cold season, warm seasons, hot season (about three months)
Rainfall: rain increases with warmer weather
Climate type: Humid Continental (hot and wet summer, cold/snowy winter)
Map 2
Temperature: Below zero for winter months, cold for non-winter months.
Rainfall: dry and cool
Climate: Tundra (cool and dry to very cold all year)
Map 3
Temperature: warm in months from about October to March, hot in other months.
Rainfall: lots of rain in warmer months, some rain in other months (mild)
Climate: Humid Subtropical (hot and wet summer, mild and damp winter)
Map 4
Temperature: Freezing cold all year
Rainfall: Almost no rain
Climate: Ice Cap (Very cold all year)
Map 5
Temperature: hot months to warm months
Rainfall: little to no rain (less rain than map 10).
Climate: Desert
Map 6
Temperature: hot and humid all year round
Rainfall: Lots of rain all year
Climate: Humid Tropical (hot and rainy all year)
Map 7
Temperature: hot all year round
Rainfall: dry season and wet season
Climate: Tropical Savannah (hot all year, wet during one season and dry during another)
Map 8
Temperature: hot summer, warm/mild winter
Rainfall: dry summer and wet winter
Climate: Mediterranean
Map 9
Temperature: Freezing winter months, short and cold summer season
Rainfall: little rainfall
Climate: Subarctic (short, cool summer and a long and freezing/snowy winter)
Map 10
Temperature: warm and hot months
Rainfall: dry with a bit more rain than the desert climate
Climate: Steppe (dry with some rainfall)
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