10th Social Studies New Text Book - Climate and Weather

Climate and Weather: The state of atmospheric conditions over an area at a particular point of time refers to weather. These weather conditions fluctuate very often even in short period. Climate refers to such conditions over a large area and follows a similar general pattern over many years. What have been the general conditions, year after year, over thirty years or more, gives us the climate.

There are variations from year to year but a basic pattern remains the same. On the basis of these generalized conditions, the year is divided into seasons. The important elements of climate such as temperature (maximum and minimum) and rainfall can be shown with the help of climographs (also called ‘climatographs’). The elements of weather and climate are: temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, humidity, and precipitation.

Climographs of a few places in India.

This file was behaving very odd, I am removing the photos - Suresh The above graphs show that temperature and rainfall vary in different parts of the country. Refer to your atlas and identify the relief region where these places are located. Also
read the above graphs and note the following:

1. What are the warmest and coldest months in Leh?
2. From the range of temperatures in the above table can you say that Jaipur is, in general, hotter than Leh? Justify your answer.
3. Compare the climate of Delhi and Chennai. How are they different?
4. Read carefully the rainfall pattern for Leh? In what ways is this different from others? From your atlas can you find out some other places in the world that have similar rainfall pattern?
5. Identify the monsoon months for Chennai. How is this different from Jaipur.
6. Using your atlas fill in the latitudes of these locations, in the climographs.

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