Describe

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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.
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Mark Allocation

• Total Score 25 marks
• Description 10 marks
• Explanation 15 marks

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Essay Writing -10 Smart Tips

• 1. Read the question carefully
• 2. Find out the directive terms
• 3. Identify the related facts concepts
• 4. Search for hidden questions concepts
• 5. Confine the sphere of interest
• 6. Incorporate appropriate examples
• 7. Organize structure your materials
• 8. Mark your time
• 9. Write your essay
• 10. Check your essay for accuracy consistency.

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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.
- give a visual impression of
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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.

• to make known in details
• facts processes are the most important

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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.

• distribution on the map
• location by latitudes / continents
• pattern are there regularities?

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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.

• Do I have to draw the net radiation graph?
• Location by latitudes (Curve C)
• The atmosphere? The earth surface?

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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.

• regions with different climatic conditions
• s showing more than 1 region required

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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.

• extreme very distinctive / unique / acute
• atmospheric processes taken place in the
  atmosphere in affecting energy supplies

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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.

• extreme could it mean
• the two ends surplus deficit?

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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.

• energy supplies- What is the source?
• Could it mean net radiation?

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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.

• What are the global factors?
• local factors? e.g. aspect, altitude, land use,
  distribution of land sea

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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.

• focus on latitudinal variation
• instead of variation in the different
  hemispheres in the north south
• heat transfer? heat balance? irrelevant
  should be omitted!

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Describe explain the spatial pattern of
climatic regions with extreme atmospheric energy
supplies.

• What are the appropriate examples?
• extreme surplus within 400N-38oS
• extreme deficit from the range poleward

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Structure of Writing

• 1. Introduction
• - the primary source of energy input the Sun
• - definition of net radiation
• - there are regions with higher net radiation
  those with lower net radiation
• - difference in net radiation results in
  variation of energy supply
• - from the climatic regions in the world, we
  observe the result of variation in energy
  supplies.

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Structure of Writing

• 2. Body Description of the spatial pattern
• - the graph of global net radiation (Curves A-C)
• - the latitudinal range of surplus deficit
  regions
• - implications on their energy supplies
• - 2 extreme energy supplies
• extremely high energy supplies tropical areas
• extremely low energy supplies polar areas
• - resulting in various climatic regionstropical
  rainforest, tropical monsoon, tropical grassland,
  tropical desert (Select one only)

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Structure of Writing

• 2. Body Description of the spatial pattern
• - forms of different energy supplies
• extremely high energy supplies typhoons,
  tornadoes, hot air mass, warm ocean currents.
• extremely low energy supplies
• blizzard, cold air mass, cold ocean
  currents..

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Structure of Writing

• 2. Body explanation of the spatial pattern
  (link)
• - even with the same amount is reached at the top
  of the atmosphere over the two regions, their net
  radiation values can never be the same
• - the shape of the Earth a sphere
• - from the graph showing the global net
  radiation, latitude is the most critical factor
  in explaining the variation

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Structure of Writing

• 2. Body explanation of the spatial pattern
• - with special attentions to paid on the
  variations in the selected climatic regions
  w.r.t. each corresponding factor
• latitude determines
• angle of the sun / angle of inclination
• concentration of insolation
• thickness of the atmosphere
• various atmospheric processes of reflection,
  scattering absorption

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Structure of Writing

• 2. Body explanation of the spatial pattern
• latitude also determines
• the length of the day / hours of sunlight
  through the rotation of the Earth evolution
  around the Sun
• global air circulation in turn, the cloud cover
• albedo of the Earths surface (e.g. presence of
  ice cover, vegetation cover)

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Structure of Writing

• 2. Body explanation of the spatial pattern
• regional local factors
• distribution of land sea (e.g. 400N-38oS)
• aspect
• altitude / height (e.g. ice cap on equatorial
  mts.)
• land use modification by human activities, etc.

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Structure of Writing

• 3. Conclusion
• different climatic regions are formed in relation
  to the amount of energy supplies
• which depends much on the levels of net
  radiation
• e.g. tropical climate extreme high energy
  supply
• e.g. polar climate extreme low
• the former are usually found within 400N-38oS
  from the Equator
• the latter poleward beyond this range
• factors latitudes more