HOMEWORK: A07- Chapter 6 of Atlas for a Utah School Project -- ATMOSPHERE -- weather and climate.

OVERVIEW and INSTRUCTIONS

GEOGRAPHY of UTAH – Homework due Thursday, March 4.

Purpose of the homework assignment:

Apply concepts of geography to Utah and to Utah places.

Specifically discuss characteristics of Utah’s ATMOSPHERE. Recognize issues related to weather and climate.

Discuss present conditions at state, regional, and local scales. Discuss climate of the past… and the future.

CLIMATE ZONES of UTAH – From Atlas of Utah on DEM by Ray Sterner

DEPICTION OF ICE AGE UTAH – Wm Lee Stokes, permission granted.

Utah Geological Survey - Map 73 - Major Levels of Great Salt Lake and Lake Bonneville. Extent of Lake Bonneville portion of the map

Assessment: This assignment will be graded:

25% on supporting files.

At least five maps, charts, schematics that show aspects of climate for “your” setting.  

75% on cover page discussion…

(a) Observations: write at least 5 characteristics of the weather and climate of “your” community as shown in your supporting files (maps, figures, tables, …).

NOTE: the easiest way to do this is to list your figures on your cover sheet, meaning list the maps, charts, tables, images, AND write a caption for each of figures. If the caption reads: “note the lack of precipitation…” or “Figure ___ shows how most of ___ County is classified as steppe, meaning, as a generalization, that it experiences more evaporation than precipitation, but not two time evaporation than precipitation”… then you’ve made an observation. Don’t hesitate to state the obvious.

(b) Analysis: define and discuss WHY your setting, and Utah in general has the climate it has… look to the lecture notes or Google “Utah Climate”

(c) Interpretation: Recognize and describe three big issues that face “your” community with respect to discussions of global warming.