One Sport, Different Places
A school sports club is learning about outdoor fields in different parts of the world. Before exchanging ideas with other teams, the club studies climate information. Climate describes the usual weather in a place over many years. One rainy afternoon or one chilly morning does not describe a place's whole climate.
The club's report summarizes records collected over 30 years at three study locations. One location is in the Sahara in North Africa. Its average yearly temperature is about 25°C. Another is in the Amazon lowlands in South America, where the average is about 26°C. The third is in northern Finland in Europe, where the average is about 1°C. These are yearly averages, not temperatures for every day.
Records from the northern Finland location also show cold, snowy winters and milder summers. The Amazon location has warm weather throughout the year. The graph shows average yearly precipitation for each location. Precipitation includes rain and snow. Snow is melted before its water amount is measured. Amounts are rounded and shown in centimeters, or cm.
These records describe the study locations. Other places within each large region can have different conditions. The club will use the records to compare climates, not to promise the weather on a particular game day.