Introduction

How do we analyze and easily compare the climates of different biomes?


D5.6 Thermal transfer occurs from hot areas to cold areas
Climatographs make it easy to analyze and compare different climates. These graphs show us the average amount of precipitation and temperature for each month of the year for different locations. They allow us to quickly pick out patterns within a climate or compare the climates of two locations.

In this lesson, you will learn how to read climatographs, how to use them to predict the biome the location is part of or the causes of the climate seen, and how to create climatographs.

  Target

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to

  • analyze the climatographs of two major biomes and explain why biomes with similar characteristics can exist in different geographical locations

  Watch This

Climate Graphs – Geo Skills © YouTube Wimble Don  


Watch this video for an introduction to climatographs and how to build one. For this course, please always place the precipitation on the left and the temperature on the right. Also note that we use mm rather than mL for amount of rainfall.