Climate graphs: reading and drawing
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Set it as homework or classwork and every answer is marked as pupils go, with feedback on what they got wrong. The scores go straight into your mark book, so you can see who needs help before the next lesson.
- 12 questions
- 35 marks
- about 30 minutes
- marked instantly
Question types: calculation, multiple choice, true or false, label the diagram, multi-part.
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What do the bars on a climate graph show?
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About this resource
Learn how a climate graph shows temperature and rainfall, read the climates of Manaus and Sheffield, plot your own graph and compare two very different places using figures.
14 slides.
Lesson outline
- Two places, two numbers
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Keywords for This Lesson
- How a climate graph works
- The three data sets
- I Do: reading the Manaus graph
- Hinge Check
- We Do: reading the Sheffield graph
- Plot Sheffield's climate
- Compare Manaus and In Salah
- Self-Check: a full-mark comparison
- Homework
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