WET AND AWAKE in SEATTLE
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY TAKE HOME PORTION A
CALCULATE AND ANSWER ALL OF QUESTIONS BELOW
KNOW THE ANSWERS TO ALL THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS AND BRING THE ANSWERS WITH YOU (IN YOUR MIND OR ON A SHEET OF PAPER) TO THE MIDTERM EVALUATION THESE QUESTIONS WILL BE PART OF THE MULTIPLE CHOICE EVALUATION.

On one sheet, make sure your name is on the sheet in the upper right hand corner of the paper, include your graphs....Title each graph with the correct city.

Make Sure You Read All The Assignment

1. For this assignment you will need the three data sets supplied in this lesson (below), the questions, an atlas, a ruler, a blue and red pencil and your text.

What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the city, SEATTLE? Great espresso coffee? Mount Rainier or the Space Needle. Home of the world's greatest grunge music and fashion? Kurt Cobain? What about RAIN as in precipitation? Many people identify Seattle with a really rainy climate. Some say the constant drizzle makes for a very depressing living environment and lends itself to emotional depression. It does rain a lot there but how much? And how would the precipitation of Seattle compare to places like Houston. Would you say it rains more in Seattle....or more in Houston? For that matter is the whole State of Washington under one perpetual rain storm. There are rain forests in Washington but is Seattle in a Rain Forest? In this assignment you will look at the climates in three locations. Seattle, and Yakima, (Yak' ki (short i) ma (like ma ma).) Washington and Houston, Texas. You will be given data for these places but you will have to choose which ones are which. In other words, you will have to do a little detective work.

Overview:
One way to do this is to go on the assumption that all of these places have different climates (and they do). So with that in mind, if you draw a climagraph for each place you should have a good graphic representation of the climates of each of them and you should be able to pick which ones are which. Your text talks about climagraphs (also known as climographs) This ought to be easy, the rainy ones will be in Washington State, right?

STEP 1 WHAT"S IN A CLIMAGRAPH?
A climagraph is a chart that includes data about the climate of a particular station. It incorporates various averages of temperature and precipitation ranges. It also provides information about the latitude and longitude of the station being examined. Climagraphs also give the name of the station, altitude, and usually the type (name) of climate at the station. The Name or classification may use the Koppen classification system discussed in your text). Follow the directions below to produce your three climagraphs. Climagraphs are also described in your text.

Overview: A climagraph is a chart that includes data about the climate of a particular station. It incorporates various averages of temperature and precipitation ranges. It also provides information about the latitude and longitude of the station being examined. Climagraphs give the name of the station, altitude, and usually the type of climate at the station. This classification will be according to some form of standard climatic classification (Köppen). Follow the directions below to produce your three climagraphs. Climagraphs are described in your text.

    
Data:
The following data come from 3 meteorological stations. Two in Washington State and one in the State of Texas. Use this data to produce climagraphs for each of the stations. Use the outlines on the following page to produce the climagraphs. NOTE: TEMPERATURES ARE IN FAHRENHEIT AND PRECIPITATION IS IN INCHES.

STATION A

Data	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Yr
Temp F	51	55	61	69	75	81	83	83	78	70	60	54	68.3
Precip Inches	3.2	3.3	2.7	4.2	4.7	4.0	3.3	3.7	4.9	3.7	3.4	3.7	44.8

Since there will be three graphs, one for each station above, you will need three shells or squares to use to plot the data: You can find the shells here: GRAPH A GRAPH B GRAPH C

STEP 3 ANALYZE THE DATA
After you build the graphs, look at these graphs and analyze what you see. When does most of the precipitation fall in A B or C? Is there a difference with respect to concentration. When is the temperature greatest and lowest at each station. Now you need to choose which station is Yakima, Seattle, and Houston. How? Your text discusses the three climates expressed at these stations.

Remember to include all the necessary information in your climagraph, including latitude and longitude. Use your text and what you can interpret from the above climagraphs as well as any information from lectures, your atlas, or an almanac to answer the following questions.

• So, climate A is a what kind of climate: in the Koppen Classification system (that is Aw BSA etc.) and what is the NAME (semi arid etc.) of this climate?
• So, climate B is a what kind of climate: in the Koppen Classification system (that is Aw BSA etc.) and what is the NAME (semi arid etc.) of this climate?
• So, climate C is a what kind of climate: in the Koppen Classification system (that is Aw BSA etc.) and what is the NAME (semi arid etc.) of this climate?
  

STEP 4 THE POINTS
Bring your answers to the points above to class, and be prepared to indentify these climates (graphically and statistically) (in the order presented in this discussion) on the evaluation (test). Bring your notes to the evaluation. Questions on the test will essentially be the same as those above. No tricks.



STATION D BONUS STATION is this "west" or "east" Tejas?
If you include this station DO NOT graph this station with the graphs you hand in of Seattle, Yakima and Houston.

Data	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Yr
Temp F	42.4	46.9	55.6	64.6	72.7	79.5	81.9	80.8	73.2	63.9	52.5	44.6	63.1
Temp C	5.8	8.3	13.1	18.1	22.6	26.4	27.7	27.1	22.9	17.7	11.4	7.0	17.3
Precip Inches	.4	.6	.4	.8	2.1	1.3	1.4	1.5	2.6	1.7	.7	.4	14.0
Precip mm	9.9	16.5	11.3	19.7	52.8	33.2	34.9	37.7	66.8	42.2	18.1	11.1	355.2

Bring the answers to the questions below to class so you can complete the midterm. A selection of these questions will be on the test.

1. The climagraph that most likely matches with Seattle:
A. Climagraph A
B. Climagraph B
C. Climagraph C

2. The climagraph that most likely matches with Houston:
A. Climagraph A
B. Climagraph B
C. Climagraph C

3. The climagraph that most likely matches with Yakima:
A. Climagraph A
B. Climagraph B
C. Climagraph C

4. The station that receives the most precipitation is:
A. Seattle B. Yakima C. Houston

5. The closest absolute locations for Seattle and Houston are:
A. Seattle, 46°N 122°W.......Houston, 30°N 95° W
B. Seattle, 30°N 95° W .......Houston, 48°N 122°W
C. Seattle, 48° N 122°W ......Houston, 30°N 122° W
D. Seattle, 48° N 122°W ......Houston, 30°N 95° W

6. Choose the answer that describes the effects Absolute location (latitude, closeness to water) has on the climates of Seattle and Houston.
A. Houston is generally warmer than and has less less precipitation than Seattle.
B. Houston is generally cooler than and has more precipitation than Seattle.
C. Houston has less precipitation than Seattle however, their temperatures are the same.
D. Houston has more precipitation than Seattle and is quite a bit warmer.

7. The climagraphs of Houston and Seattle suggest:.
A. Houston's rainfall peaks are during the winter months, these are probably due to convective storms.
B. Precipitation in Houston falls all year but a peak occurs during the winter months.
C. A major difference between Houston and Seattle is precipitation periods, Houston has convective storms in the summer.
D. Seattle and Houston's precipitation profile is generally the same.

8. Choose the statement which best describes the climatic conditions in Yakima.
A. Being on the windward side of the mountains this city receives as much rain as Seattle.
B. Given Yakima's elevation of 1067 its climate will be a Highland type.
C. Yakima has its highest temperatures and its lowest rainfalls during the summer.
D. Yakima has a very dry climate because of its position on the windward side of the Cascades.