8.8.3 Letmedo it Complete the following activities to practise this skill.
8.8 SkillBuilder activity 1. Using FIGURE3 , give grid references for the following features. a. Canberra airport
b. Queanbeyan c. Mount Ainslie
2. The Prime Minister is hosting a group of leaders from the Asia–Paciýc region. The leaders will visit some local attractions in and around Canberra as part of their trip. Use the Canberra map in FIGURE3 and the following grid references to report on the places of interest that the group visited. a. Before lunch, the group went to E7, E13 and F11. b. They had lunch at F9. c. After lunch, they visited G9 and H8 before making their way to A7. d. That night, they had dinner at D8. Checklist I have: • run up or down the column of squares ýrst and then run across the row of squares to identify the grid references • written the letter of the alphabet before the numeral for each reference • double-checked my answers.
LESSON 8.9 Skillbuilder: Drawing a climate graph
LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this SkillBuilder you should be able to draw a climate graph.
8.9.1 Tell me What are climate graphs?
Climate graphs, or climographs, display climate data for a speciýc location using a column graph for average monthly precipitation and a line graph for average monthly temperature. The left axis shows temperature, while the right axis shows rainfall. Temperature may be shown as one mean monthly value or two lines for mean maximum and minimum temperatures. Mount Isa, about 1800 kilometres northwest of Brisbane in Queensland’s arid Gulf Country, is a key outback centre with around 18 000 residents, mostly involved in mining copper, silver and zinc. The climate graphs for Mount Isa in FIGURES1 and 2 illustrate how temperature lines help us understand the area’s climate. Why are climate graphs useful? Climate graphs are used to show the climate of a place over a 12-month period. Because the red line on the graph shows temperature and the blue columns show rainfall, you can quickly understand the graph. It is much easier to compare the climate of two places by looking at their climate graphs than by looking at tables of statistics, so drawing and using these graphs is an important geographical skill. It also very easy to compare climate patterns for different areas when the graphs are drawn using the same conventions.
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