Sunday, May 8, 2011

Year 10 Thursday 5/5 Mapping

  1. What is it about the pressure system stalled over Australia that relates to the weather over the next 4 days? The high pressure system will stop rainy weather (relating to sunny condition in the graph below)
  2. What is the air pressure in each of the next 4 days for each of the capital cities? How does this correspond with the predicted weather for these cities? In next 4 days, cities will experience high pressure of weather.

Cities
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Sydney
1016
1012
1016
1017
Melbourne
1030
1027
1019
1022
Darwin
1014
1014
1018
1022
Perth
1018
1024
1022
1018
Adelaide
1028
1019
1028
1018
Brisbane
1016
1015
1017
1017



  1. What is the contour interval (sometimes abbreviated CI)? Convert to metric. The contour interval is 6.096m, Contour interval is the line between the line.
  2. What is the scale of the map? Convert it into the metric system. 2cm equal one mile or 1.6km
  3. What is the gradient of the line? Calculate in metric system.
        0.01125m


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