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Climate in Asia. The Climate Graph. What is a Climate Graph?. A Climate Graph is a combination of a ____ and a ___ graph. It combines the information about _____ and ________ for one place. Rainfall, measured in _______ is up one side of the graph and is represented as a ___ graph.
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Climate in Asia The Climate Graph
What is a Climate Graph? • A Climate Graph is a combination of a ____ and a ___ graph. • It combines the information about _____ and ________ for one place. • Rainfall, measured in _______ is up one side of the graph and is represented as a ___ graph. • Temperature, measured in _____ is up the other side of the graph and is represented by the ___ graph Line Bar Rainfall Temperature Millimetres Bar Degrees Line
What is a Climate Graph? 5. _____ are located along the bottom Months
Climate Graph for Jakarta (Indonesia) 400 40 350 30 300 20 250 10 200 0 150 -10 100 -20 -30 50 0 -40 Drawing a Climate Graph? Temperature (C) Rainfall (mm) Months
Climate Graph for Ho Chi Mihn City (Vietnam) 400 40 350 30 300 20 250 10 200 0 150 -10 100 -20 -30 50 0 -40 Drawing a Climate Graph? Temperature (C) Rainfall (mm) Months
Climate in Asia • Now you have completed your graphs I want you to write some sentences describing what your graphs are showing. • The first sentence is describing the rainfall throughout the year. • e.g. The rainfall in Jakarta (or Ho Chi Mihn City) over the year is . . .
Climate in Asia • The second sentence is describing the temperature throughout the year. • e.g. The temperature in Jakarta (or Ho Chi Mihn City) over the year is . . . • The third sentence is describing the overall climate over the year. • e.g In Jakarta in the winter it is … • e.g In Jakarta in the summer it is …
The Monsoons • There are two seasons or monsoons in Asia. • The wet monsoon lasts from May to October in the Northern Hemisphere (and December to April in the Southern Hemisphere). • During the wet monsoon it rains almost every day with very heavy downpours lasting for an hour or two. • The air is very humid and sticky during these downpours.
The Monsoons (continued) • During the dry monsoon there is no rain for several months and the temperatures are a little cooler.
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