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=Hi 206,= As promised, the attached file contains the slides that i want to share with you in class today. Look through the slides on the flood in Rockhampton and the blizzard in NY. Think about the different ways weather and climate can affect human beings, be it as mundane as making holiday decisions or hampering mobility (during freak weather events). Lastly, look at the Koeppen's Climate Classification chart. Could you explain why the various regions have differing climatic conditions? How will people living in different regions adapt to their surrounding climatic conditions (e.g. compare the lifestyle of people living in the tropics as compared to those living in, say, arid climate or temperate climate) ? http://faculty.southwest.tn.edu/rburkett/ES%20%20we17.jpg

Have an enriching discussion!

Hi 206, Look at the 2 maps below. One shows the distribution of climatic belts around the world, while the other shows the global distribution of biomes.

Can you find any co-relations between the two maps? Do the biomes vary from place to place? Why? What climatic conditions are suitable for the growth of the different biome type?

Discuss in the discussion thread!

source: http://allscienceconsidered.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/biomes.jpg

Source: http://www.geographyalltheway.com/ib_geography/ib-extreme-environments/imagesetc/kottek_et_al_2006.gif

Hi 206,

An interesting article about climate change. Click on the link below:

[|2010 hits global temperature high]