Hazel Goh
So here's my post for Monday's geog lesson. :)
We talked a lot today about the climate and weather. We always want to know if it's wet or warm in a particular area. There are many ways to describe how wet or how warm a place is! Take for example, descriptions of warmth are, hot, cold, freezing etc. And the descriptions for wet are very wet, damp, mild etc. To add on, how wet a place is depends on the amount of rainfall and the precipitation in that particular area. Snow is not a type of rainfall, but it is a type of precipitation.
Then we watched a video! Bill Nye the science guy. It was a really funny but detailed video! :) It talked about the Earth having many different climates, and covered mostly by water. Different kinds of living things have found their way to adapt to the surrounding climates. Mountains have a big effect on climate, and can divide areas into two different climates, one side warm, and the other side wet.
After that, we learnt about the climograph! :) We were grouped into groups of 2/3s, and then made to evaluate the climographs. When we are doing climographs, we have to always read the title first! So that we would know where the location is. We also have to pay attention to the units, as the units are not standard across the countries. A climograph is a measure of the temperature/precipitation for the year in a particular location, measuring how warm/wet is the area. When evaluating the climographs, we have to look out for the magnitude and the distribution of the temperature and weather. The distribution includes the range (is there any fluctuations?) and the seasons (when is it warm/cool? How many seasons?). We have to describe the general pattern of a climograph via the temperature and precipitation!
When describing a climograph, we have to check out for
- What are the general patterns?
- Any special abnormalities? (Eg, suddenly going out of pattern)
- Is it hot/cold?
- Are there any seasons?
- When is it wet, mild or dry?
For the last part of the lesson, we looked at the latitudes and longtitudes of the world map! :D Climate is affected by location, which is the longtitude! And the world map is sorted out by climates and temperatures by looking at the different coloured areas.
So that's what we covered in on Monday! :) It was really enlighting, watching the video of Bill Nye. It was rather funny, and it showed us how to learn geography in a less boring way! Plus, learning to read the climograph was something new and rather interesting!
posted by 08ip01 at
9:36 PM
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When describing the climograph, we also have to state what type of weather shown in the climograph and if the location of the place that the graph represents is not given, we have to indicate whether the that place belongs to North or South hemisphere
(Vu Ngoc Quang)
Yeah, the Earth has so many different climates. It can almost be said that you'll never experience the same climate elsewhere in the world. I suppose its because the climate is a result of a multitude of factors, each so closely interlinked and correlated. Factors such as the very shape of the earth, to the landscape of the area and geology of the area all plays a part in the overall climate of the area. Its indeed fascinating.
That's right, imagine us living at somewhere else now. It'll be awesome if there's snow! But at least Singapore has the mild temperature range, unlike Philippines, which has summer hotter than our hottest days!
And did you ever know that London doesn't have heavy storms? I never knew till my UK delegates mentioned about it! All they have is little rain now and then, and since there isnt rain often in London, people are always fascinated at lightnings and sound of thunder!
Climate of place is dependent on a lot of factors. The most important ones are the latitude and the altitude. This is the reason that deserts are found mostly around the same latitude across the Earth. Other factors which influence climate of the earth are 'Distance from the sea and Ocean currents(Warm will increase the temperature as they will bring warm air and cold will decrease the temperature).
As there are a ton of factors that may be involved, the way we intepret a hydrograph is of utmost importance. Our explanations are often based on current scientific theories, especially as we observe trends after looking at several climographs to explore the effects of say, climate change. How do we know which arrow points to which factor with a direct relationship? Sometimes, rain or the lack thereof and high/low temperatures are dependent on so many factors, that are dependent on so many theories the validity of such statements are extremely crucial. For example, many look at increased temperatures over the years and point them directly towards global warming, but is it necessarily so? The handout given to us was an intriguing one for it introduced to us ideas such as global warming not actually being existent; what we are experiencing is but a natural fluctuation and so on. A climograph is actually rather complex and cannot be viewed in isolation.
Well, personally, i feel that analysing climographs is no mean feat! It's not as easy as just obtaining values of the graph because it involves looking into the whys and hows of certain climate and its changes. Ultimately, climate is affected by its location, because different places have different environmental conditions.
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