3º ESO. UNIT 6 & 7: Climate diagrams.

What types of climate are these diagrams? (Clue: they are from the temperate zone).
Answer at the end of the post

(Climate diagrams taken from http://www.educaplus.org/climatic/)

Answer

If these climate diagrams are from the temperate zone, the four possible climates are: Continental, Mediterranean, Chinese and Oceanic.

Diagram number 4: Continental climate.

The climate number 4 is easy to identify since Continental climates have very cold winters and hot summers, thus, the only diagram which has temperatures below 0ºC is number 4. We also can observe the range of temperature: the Continental climate is the one from the temperate zone with the highest range of temperature and in this case, the diagram with the highest range of temperature is number 4. The average annual temperature and precipitation are also similar to the normal levels of this climate (mean annual temperature between 0ºC and 10ºC, and precipitation between 300-1000mm). The diagram also shows that the wettest months are Summer's ones.

Diagram number 3: Oceanic climate.

In number 3, the range od temperature is the lowest one, and looking at the diagram we observe that the reason for this is that winters are mild and summers are cool. The annual precipitation is around 1000mm and the mean annual temperature, 10.9ºC, is comprised between 10ºC and 18ºC. Rain is constant throughout the year although less in summer (but summers are not arid months).

Diagram number 2: Mediterranean climate.

We observe that summer months are arid (the temperature line is higher than the precipitation line) and that the mean annual temperature is between 10ºC and 20ºC, with mild winters (never under 10ºC) and hot summers.

Diagram number 1: Chinese climate.

Although the mean annual temperature is quite similar to the Mediterranean climate, it cannot be this type of climate because summer moths are the wettest ones. Also, the annual precipitation is very high and isn't comprised in the Mediterranean range (from 300mm to 1000mm), so this diagram belongs to a Chinese climate.

* If you want to know the location of climates on Earth you can go to this link: http://www.oup.com/images/es/pdf/9788467327779.swf