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Exercise #5: Climagraph Interpretation (18 pts)
(due by 11:45 pm Thursday, 8/1)
Students are to interpret climagraphs based on climate data collected at the six probe landing sites and compare these results with what you expected to find at the landing sites in Exercise #4.
2) NASA lands six probes at six different sites on the planet. The probes’ landing locations are displayed on Map 1. After a year of data collection they provide you with enough information to form climagraphs for each location. This data includes information of temperature and precipitation in climagraph form. Examine the climagraphs carefully and answer the following questions for each of the landing sites:
Based on the probe climagraph climate appears at the landing site?
Do these observations match your speculations in the climate regionalization in Exercise 4 at this site?
What geographic factors might explain any differences between your speculative genetic regionalizations and your field observations from the probes? Here think about the fact that we actually don’t know if and were mountains are. Also climates rarely have severe and distinct boundaries, transitions from one climate to another occur over 10s to 100s of miles.
Note: At least one climagraph is totally irregular and does not match any normal climate. Question our initial assumptions about the planet!
Probe 1 Climate from Climagraph:
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Probe 2 Climate from Climagraph:
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Probe 3 Climate from Climagraph:
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Probe 4 Climate from Climagraph:
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Probe 5 Climate from Climagraph:
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Probe 6 Climate from Climagraph:
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