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Background
Lessons for Journey North
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Global
Climates and Seasons
Temperature
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This
animation shows how global temperatures change throughout the year.
First take time to understand the map. Look at the title and key.
Imagine the equator, which runs horizontally across the middle of
the globe.
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Try
to locate approximately where you live.
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The
first few times you look at the animation, look at temperature patterns
on the entire globe. (Try starting in January.)
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The
next few times through, look at temperature patterns just in North
America.
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Answer
the questions
below the map. You can review the animation as you try to answer
the questions.
Average
Air Temperatures Through the Year
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Questions
- What
patterns do you notice? What general statements can you make about
global temperatures?
- Which
areas/latitudes tend to have the highest temperatures? The lowest?
- How
do average temperatures — as a whole — seem to move/shift
throughout the year?
- Point
to a place on the globe were you think the temperatures change dramatically
throughout the year. Where do you think they remain fairly constant?
- What
seems to happen to temperatures where you live? Does it seem accurate?
- Point
to your migrating animal's winter and summer habitats. What does
this map tell you about the temperature conditions it needs to survive
— or that it can survive in?
Find
out what scientists think >>
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