E What types of climate are found in Europe?

European Weather  check out what it is like today

1. Work in groups of four or five for this task and select one place each from the above map so that your group has chosen a spread of places throughout the continent.
2. Work through the exercises which accompany each climate graph [click for help ]
3. See if you can find out about the climates of other places that have not been included on the map. [Handy Help: try clicking here but be very careful about the units used in these tables of figures!]
4. Write a paragraph which compares the climates that you have researched. You can work as a group here.

• compare summer temperatures
• compare winter temperatures
• compare precipitation totals
• compare distribution of precipitation [when the rainfall occurs in the year.]

5. On an outline map of Europe [click here], divide the continent up into the following climate types:

Polar    Temperate continental    Temperate rainy [British type] 

   Mediterranean    Mountain

[Help: use a text book like Geography Matters 2 pages 56 -57]

6. Describe the locations of each climate within Europe and summarise how temperature and precipitation change throughout the continent.

Any further help on the changes of temperature, rainfall and snowfall can be researched via the  National Geographic web site.

Paul Thompson Ounsdale High Schoo,l Wombourne, Staffordshire