1. Objectives To understand how and why climate varies within the Tropics

2. Describe and explain the distribution of Tropical climates Now locate the following places on your map; Kano Belem Chittagong Dodoma

3. Tropical Climates - Activities Draw the climate graphs (please use the same axis units), print them small and add them to your map. What similarities and differences are there? SimilaritiesDifferences Temperature Precipitation

5. Reasons for climatic variation within the Tropics 1. Look at page 54 to 60 2. Identify from your graphs a place of; Equatorial climate Tropical wet and dry climate Tropical monsoon climate 3. http://daphne.palomar.edu/pdeen/Animations/23_Weat herPat.swf - whilst watching the animation – what happens to pressure and precipitation as the ICTZ shifts? http://daphne.palomar.edu/pdeen/Animations/23_Weat herPat.swf 4. Using information from the text book explain the patterns of rainfall on all 4 of our graphs

6. http://www.newmediastudio.org/DataDisco very/Hurr_ED_Center/Stages_of_Hurricane _Dev/ITCZ/ITCZ.html

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