Study Guide, Outline Notes, and Climate Summary
 
Study Guide on Climate Regions
View or Print the Study Guide
 
PowerPoint Presentation Outline Notes for Climate Regions
View or Print the Outline Notes

Practice Quizzes

After completing the reading assignment and exploring the Web resources, study guide, and tutorial, review what you have learned with these quizzes:
 

 
Climate Regions Multiple Choice Quiz
 

Quizzes, Tarbuck and Lutgens, Chapter 20, Key Concepts 1-3 and Chapter Test

Web Exploration
 
Climographs
What are climographs? How do we read them?

Climographs of North America

 
 
Compare San Francisco with cities at similar latitudes across the United States.
How and why is San Francisco so different from the other cities?
 
 
 

World Climates
Find out the climate for anywhere in the world that you intend to visit.

Koppen's Climate Classification and Climate Controls
Gregory Carbonne has an excellent overview of the major factors that control climate in his
Climate Controls tutorial.

Precipitation Map for California
Which part of the state is wettest? Which part is driest? Where do most of the people live?

National Climatic Data Center
The National Climatic Data Center is a branch of NOAA with the world's largest active archive of weather data.
Information from satellites, radar, and other weather equipment is provided to the public.
 

Global Warming
This NOAA site answers frequently asked questions about global warming.
See, also, Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect in the Temperature Differences Learning Module.
Use a search engine to find other sites about global warming.

Animation of Average Monthly Precipitation in millimeters. Observe the migration of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and Polar Front as monthly rainfall increases and decreases throughout the year.

Animation of mean monthly temperatures
Watch the temperatures rise and fall as the overhead sun shifts between the northern and southern hemispheres.

Animation of monthly sunshine fraction
Which areas have the greatest fraction of potential sunshine?  Which areas have the least? Compare these areas with the animation of monthly precipitation.
 

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