A task for 9ESC

1. Skills in Social
Studies
The Climate Graph

2. What is a Climate Graph?
1. A Climate Graph is a combination of a
____ and a ___ graph.
2. It combines the information about _____
and ________ for one place.
3. Rainfall, measured in _______ is up one
side of the graph and is represented as a
___ graph.
4. Temperature, measured in _____ is up
the other side of the graph and is
represented by the ___ graph
Line Bar
Rainfall
Temperature
Millimetres
Bar
Degrees
Line

3. What is a Climate Graph?
5. _____ are located along the bottomMonths

4. Climate Graph for Christchurch
Months Rainfall (mm) Temp (°C)
Jan 50 16
Feb 40 16
Mar 70 15
Apr 75 12
May 80 9
June 70 6
July 80 6
Aug 75 7
Sept 60 10
Oct 50 11
Nov 40 14
Dec 30 16

5. Climate Graph for Christchurch
Climate Graph for Christchurch
Months
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
Rainfall(mm)
J
40
30
20
10
0
-10
-20
-30
-40
Temperature
(°C)DNOSAJJMAMF

6. Create your own Climate Graph
• You are now going to create your own
Climate Graph.
• Use the figures on the next page to create
a Climate Graph for Hong Kong.

7. Months Rainfall Temp
Jan 40 18
Feb 55 19
Mar 75 22
Apr 140 25
May 290 28
June 390 30
July 370 32
Aug 360 30
Sept 250 29
Oct 120 27
Nov 40 24
Dec 30 21
Data for a climate graph of
Hong Kong