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Introduction to Climatographs
Graphing Practice Worksheets

The two biggest abiotic factors that determine an ecosystem are temperature and precipitation. Climatographs take each of these data and combine them in a way that can help identify what kind of ecosystem is present. Monthly average precipitation levels make a bar graph, while the monthly average temperature levels make a line graph. Together, they produce a pattern that can identify what type of ecosystem is present, any seasons it has, and what hemisphere it is located in.

There are an additional three sets of worksheets for this activity -- each covers a different type of biome: grassland, desert, and forest.

Essential concepts:Biomes, ecosystems, temperature, precipitation, climate, seasons, climatographs.

• Constructing Climatographs of Deserts

• Constructing Climatographs of Seasonal Forests

• Constructing Climatographs of Grasslands