Return to Good's Geography Page.
PART I (Find a climate for cities)
Go to Prof. Good's Home Page
(http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/1894/index.html)
Click on box called Weather and Climate
Click on World Climate
You'll see: Find the Climate For and a blank to the right.
You are going to look up four cities. First, your hometown; the other
three cities are of your choice that deal with a different climate (Tropical
Rainforest, Tundra, Mediterranean, etc) Here you might want to refer to Chapter 15 of your text. You have thoudands of cities worldwide to choose
from.
Do the following for each of the four cities:
1. Name city
2. Give latitude and longitude
3. Click on Average Rainfall and give annual rainfall in inches and
monthly distribution (Be sure to look at pattern)
4. Go back and click on Average Temperature and give elevation and average
temperature for January in F degree and average temperature in July in F
degrees. What is the temperature range between January and July (simple
calculation)
5. How would you classify the climate of this particular city and explain
why.
Again, do this for all four cities you chose.
PART II (Climatic Diagrams)
Go back to Prof. Good's Home PAGE. Click on Geography of Latin America.
Go down to LINKS and click on Geography of Latin America Resources. (This
will be the Slippery Rock University course on Geography of Latin America)
Go to "The Andean Countries and Mexico" and click.
Click on Climate of Lima, Peru (similar to Climatic Diagrams, Box 15-1,
page 396 of text)
1. Explain Annual Temperature of Lima and Rainfall Patterns (You are
interpreting the diagram so need to be specific)
2. From the data you got, tell what type of climate Lima, Peru has?
3. Explain the causes of this climate (or what are the controls?)
Go back and you'll see a list of sites highlighted and you'll see
Altitudinal Zonation in Andes of South America. Click. You'll get a nice
diagram/graph. Do the following:
1. Name the four altitudinal zones and list elevation of each in feet and types of crops/livestock found in each zone?
2. From your memory, write down how many degrees does temperature decrease
per 1000 feet increase in altitude.?
3. Explain your reaction to this graph? What about it?
Go back to "Brazil and Southern South America" and click. Scroll down more to The Climate of Santiago, Chile
and click. You'll see a climatic diagram. Print it and answer the following:
1. Describe the precipitation pattern by month.
2. What is the climate of Santiago? Why?
PART III (Netsearch Climate)
This part should expose you to wide range of topics that could be searched.
Go to anyone of the search engines. Search the following
topics dealing with climate: rainforests, Amazon, deserts, climate, Great Plains, jungles, droughts, ocean currents, tundra, El Nino, tropical
weather, Siberia, winds, tropics, Arctic, Savanna, world climates, tropical
soils, monsoons, grasslands, sub-tropics, etc etc. etc. or something
discussed in Chapter 15 or anything that excites you dealing with climate.
Do the following:
Find two sites
1. Identify site (http # and title)
2. Abstract or summarize the site
3. Relate to concepts discussed in class (elements and controls of
climate, etc. etc.)
4. Evaluation of site--good, bad, why. etc.
Hopefully, you all have been exposed enough to the World Wide Web and
e-mail to be comfortable with it. Keep on using it because it'll be around
for a while and you preservice teachers will be using it in K-12 teaching.
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