Geography and Climate

You will do the following: 1. Create a blog entry on the country assigned to you called “__(your country’s)___Geography and Climate. 2.Follow the directions below for the materials you need to put into the post. You will need access to Excel (or a similar program) forthis assignment. For a sample post, see the United States’ post!A top grade for this assignment will be given to posts that completely describe the geography and climate of a country so well that Ican imagine how the climate of your country varries spatially and seasonally. Some things that make blog posts different thantraditional papers is that they are meant to be interesting to read, they don’t have to be epically long, they can link to sources orfurther information, and they should make use of images/figures throughout the post. Don’t just put your images in, refer to them inthe text! “As you can see in the map above, …” Great blog posts use the images and hyperlinks as tools. The below figures andquestions are required, but if at any time you find something interesting to add, please do! Just don’t jump the gun on the futureposts where we will be blogging about carbon emissions and whose fault it is that we have climate change, we’ll be talking about theimpacts of climate change, then we’ll be blogging about climate change policies and alternative energy, finally we’ll talk about howcountries can adapt to the impacts as they are happening. This post is just some background information on your country’s climate.If your name doesn’t appear here, hopefully it’s just because you added the class late. Email me ASAP and I will put you down for oneof the extra countries and update the list!GeographyGoogle around for a physical map of your country. It’s really important that you find a physical one so we can see if there aremountains or rivers or lakes in your country. Save the image. I usually do this by right clicking on the image and clicking “saveas.” Then I’ll put it somewhere easy to find on my computer, usually my desktop or my pictures folder. Click on the button in yourblog that is a little square with a landscape in it (on mine it is third from the left on the bottom row of buttons) . Now, we want tomake sure we are citing the person we just stole the map from so we don’t get in trouble! Copy and paste the link of the webpage youfound the map on. If you grabbed it from google images, I’d rather you go to the webpage where the picture was actually sitting so youhave a shorter link. Under the photo you just entered, say something like, “This map is from: blahblahblah.com” Then you canhighlight the blahblahblah and hit the word “Link” and stick that web address in there to make sure your readers can click on it.(It’s possible that copying and pasting images into your post may work, but if you do this, please test to see that it saves properly.)A great source for information to answer the following questions can be found here: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ Never plagiarize! Put everything in your own words!Location-Where is the country located in the world with respect to continents, oceans, other countries?Size-How large is the country? (Compare to the US by giving a percent of Continental US area, which is 8,080,464 km2. You can findthat out be dividing and moving your decimal place over twice.)Terrain– What types of physical geography make up the country? Are there any noteworthy rivers, lakes, or seas?ClimateCreate a temperature and precipitation graph for Denver and two cities in your country (or nearby). Please use this Excel spreadsheetfor your data:climatedata.xlsxIf you are unfamiliar with Excel, use this video to help you make your graphs:This video can also be found here: www.youtube.com/embed/K8KLa_DxTPE?rel=0Climate Types- What climate types exist in your country? (Rainforest? Desert? Semi-arid? Mediterranean climate? There’s a gazillionclimate descriptors out there, find some! The CIA World Factbook link above might even have some information for you.) How uniform isthe climate across the country? Find a map online to show this and stick it in your post. Maybe the map shows climate types orprecipitation, or even agricultural use.Seasonality- What is the annual range of temperature and precipitation for two cities in your country? An annual range is taking thehottest month minus the coldest month. A large range in precipitation probably indicates a monsoonal climate, which is a climate thathas a rainy season due to a change in wind directions. How does the annual temperature and precipitation for a city in your countrycompare to Denver? Do these cities in your country experience large or small seasonality? Seasonality refers to how extreme theseasons are. Denver has more seasonality than Miami where it’s just warm all year.Update or publish the page. If you need to save it as a draft, you can finish it later!