20-02-2009

In today’s lesson, we did some practices about describing climographs and then later on we did reflection about what we have learnt in this module :)

#First, I’ll touch on the climograph describing:
As mentioned in our previous lesson, there are some major points we should mention about climographs:
- Temperature: range + peak.
- Precipitation (rain, hail...): pattern, range (note: precipitation must come in mm)
- (Optional) sometimes elevation can also be used to describe climate.
Today we did some practices on climographs, and along the way, I picked out some points that should be noted:
- Some key words that should be used: seasonal, range (narrow/ wide), dry/ wet season, cold/hot, constant/variable, etc...
- Must pick out the general trend (eg: wetter months...)
- We can use the World map of Koppen- Geiger climate classification (the colourful map we were given) to locate the area where we’re describing and then we will know what’s the climate there.
- Climate of one area can be seasonal / not seasonal :D
- General statements should go first.
- There is no such thing as precipitate rate, just precipitate alone can do already.
- Take the graph as a circular system (cos every year we always have 12 months right? So instead of listing all the months like “December, January and February”, we can just say “from December to February”)
Most importantly, there’s no need to learn by heart any climograph description because we’ve known every necessary things to describe climographs. YOU KNOW IT, SO JUST DO IT!

#Now is our reflection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Basically we just mentioned what we have learnt in this module and connect all those things into a system so that we can see the relationship of all the stuff we’ve learnt :)

Yah, so that’s all we did today.

Cheers everyone!!!!!!!!!
Thu :)