Environmental Science 15th Edition by Scott Spoolman,Tyler Miller

Exercise 15

Gather data on the trends in average annual temperatures and average annual precipitation over the past 30 years in the area where you live. (Possible sources include weather sites on the Internet, your school library, local TV and radio meteorologists, and local or regional weather bureaus.) Try to find data for as many of these years as possible, and plot these data to determine whether the average temperature and precipitation during this period has increased, decreased, or stayed about the same. Write a report summarizing your search for data, your results, and your conclusions.