Climate and Adaptation Notes

• Weather of a place is described by the temperature and humidity of that place.

Temperature:

• The temperature on any day depends (among other factors) on the amount of sunlight received.
• It is generally cooler during the nights than in the day time.
• One of the main reasons for this is that during the day the rays of the sun heat up the Earth.
• Temperatures at night may be many degrees higher in urban areas than in rural areas because of various factors such as pollution, higher density of people and houses, less number of trees, etc.

Humidity (Amount of Moisture in the Air):

• Movement or change of position from one place to another place is termed as migration.
• It involves mass movement of birds and animals from one place to another in response to a seasonal change.
• They migrate to avoid unfavorable conditions of food availability and temperature.
• They come back to their native place once favorable conditions return.
• Some birds even migrate just to lay eggs.

Hot and Dry (Desert-Like) Climates:

An Experiment to Show Daily Changes in Temperature By Plotting A Graph:

Requirements:

• A centimeter graph sheet, temperature data from the local newspaper for 55 days,  red and blue pencils

Procedure: