Please answer the questions that appear in blue shading.
|(1) Please describe the absolute and relative location of Boulder, Colorado (Figure 2).|
The answer to this question is linked to the climate of the region.Geographers often represent the climate of a place with a climograph, which graphs monthly temperature and precipitation averages for a location.
Use Fig. 3 to answer questions 2-3:
|(2) Please describe seasonal changes in Boulder's temperature
(3) At what time of the year is Boulder's primary flash flood season, and why? Hint: Think about the weather conditions that immediately preceded the catastrophic flash flood of 1894.
Now, let's look more closely at the area where the field study takes place. Please continue to page 3 of this exercise.