University:
Brigham Young University
Course:
PHSCS 137 | Energy, Climate, and the Environment
Academic year:

2023
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71

Pages:

3
Author:

rezancuk2j

Types of Grasslands Comparing Climatographs Komakuk J F M A M J J A S O N D High Temperature (°F) -6 -2 7 28 45 52 50 48 37 18 9 -2 Precipitation (inches) 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.6 1.2 1.4 0.8 0.7 0.3 0.2 1) Does the data suggest this location is a temperate grassland, tropical grassland, or tundra? Explain. The data suggests that this location is a tundra. It shows this because the temperature goes very low (down to -6*F), and the precipitation in inches is very low as well. This evidence relates to Tundra’s climate. 2) Define when each season occurs during the year based on this data. Define spring, summer, autumn, and winter for temperature-based seasons, or dry season and wet season for precipitation-based seasons. The season spring occurs in June, summer occurs through July to August, autumn occurs september to october, and winter is from november to may. I inferred this because the precipitation is low during those winter years. Watamu J F M A M J J A S O N D High Temperature (°F) 90 91 91 88 86 82 82 82 84 84 88 90 Precipitation (inches) 1.5 0.4 1.9 4.9 9.4 3.3 2.4 2.4 2.1 4.4 4.6 2.7 1) Does the data suggest this location is a temperate grassland, tropical grassland, or tundra? Explain. This data suggest that this location is a tropical grassland. I know this because the precipitation goes all the way to 9.4 inches! Which is much higher than the other two data charts. Also, the temperature stays high throughout the whole year. 2) Define when each season occurs during the year based on this data. Define spring, summer, autumn, and winter for temperature-based seasons, or dry season and wet season for precipitation-based seasons. I infer that summer occurs from December to March, autumn goes from April to May, winter goes from June to August, and spring goes from September to November. Chicago J F M A M J J A S O N D High Temperature (°F) 36 37 48 61 72 82 86 82 77 64 50 37 Precipitation (inches) 1.8 1.6 2.2 3.1 4.4 3.5 3.2 4.8 3.4 3.3 2.8 1.9 1) Does the data suggest this location is a temperate grassland, tropical grassland, or tundra? Explain. This data suggests that this is a temperate grassland. I know this because the temperature is hotter than the Tundra, but colder than the tropical grassland. Likewise with the precipitation. 2) Define when each season occurs during the year based on this data. Define spring, summer, autumn, and winter for temperature-based seasons, or dry season and wet season for precipitation-based seasons. I infer that spring goes from March to May, summer goes from June to August, autumn goes from September to November, and winter goes from December to February.