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The passage discusses monsoon winds and climate in Asia. It states that during the summer, moist winds blow from southeast to northwest, carrying heavy rain to the region. This is because the land is warmer than the ocean at this time. During winter, the winds reverse direction and blow dry air from northwest to southeast, bringing little rainfall. The passage also mentions that summer is not a good time for tourism and earthquakes can cause tidal waves, but does not explain how this information relates to the main topic of monsoon winds and climate.

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01 02 Ctsa

The passage discusses monsoon winds and climate in Asia. It states that during the summer, moist winds blow from southeast to northwest, carrying heavy rain to the region. This is because the land is warmer than the ocean at this time. During winter, the winds reverse direction and blow dry air from northwest to southeast, bringing little rainfall. The passage also mentions that summer is not a good time for tourism and earthquakes can cause tidal waves, but does not explain how this information relates to the main topic of monsoon winds and climate.

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Name _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Date _____ Class _ _ _ __

Earth's Physical Geography

Critical Thinking Skills Activity

Distinguishing Relevant from Irrelevant Information


Learning the Skill
Wh en geographers are tryin g to learn about our planet, they
must sift through a great deal of information. It is necessary for
them to identify what is relevant, or important, and to separate that
information from other data that are not necessary for their work.
For example, geographers may want to learn how the climate of a
region is changing. Relevant information would include changes in
temperature, winds, and rainfall. Information that is irrelevant to this
topic would include changes in government or cultural traditions.
To distinguish relevant from irrelevant information~ follow
these steps:
• Identify the main topic of the material.
• Determine which supporting ideas are directly related to the topic.
• Identify sentences or ideas that do not seem to be related to the
main topic.
• Sort through the information you think might not be relevant.
Try to connect it to the main topic.
• If you cannot make a connection, then it is probably irrelevant.

(I Practicing the Skill


Directions: Read the information below. Then fill in the chart that fol-
lows with relevant and irrelevant information.
Monsoon Winds and Climate

Winds are a powerful force in creating Summer is not a good time for tourists to visit.
climates. In Asia, the monsoon winds cause During winter, the winds blow in the oppo-
huge seasonal changes each year. During the site direction. At this time of year, the land is
summer, the winds flow from southeast to colder than the ocean. The air over the ocean
northwest. This occurs because the land at that rises. Winds move from land to sea, northwest
time of year is warmer than the ocean. The hot to southeast. These winds are very dry. During
air over the land rises. The air from the ocean this season, there is little rainfall. Large earth-
flows toward land. These winds carry moist quakes can cause tidal waves along the coasts
air, which causes long periods of heavy rain. of Asia.

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Name ___________________ Date _____ Class _____

Critical Thinking Skills Activity


continued

Releva~t Information Irrelevant Information

fI Applying the Skill


Directions: Read the information below, and then answer the
questions that follow.
Growing Crops in the Desert

For thousands of years, people who have year-round do not have to worry about this
lived in dry climates have found ways to grow problem.
crops. One of the best examples is found in Egyptian farmers solved the problem by
Egypt. There, the Nile River flows through a digging channels into the riverbank. Then
desert. The river provides a plentiful supply of they began to direct the flow of the river into
water. The challenge was to get the water from the fields. These channels were probably the
the river into the desert. Almost every year, first irrigation systems on Earth. Egyptians
the Nile does this naturally when it floods also invented a simple device called a shadoof,
its banks. In ancient Egypt, people merely which used buckets to pull water out of the
waited for the floods to supply them with river and into the channels. With these sys-
water for their crops. The problem was how tems, farmers were able to bring water to their
to irrigate their crops dur~g the rest of the crops. A high percentage of Egyptians live
year. Of course, people surrounded by water along the Nile.

1. Finding the Main Idea What is the main topic of the information?

2. Identifying What is an example of irrelevant information in the


first paragraph?

3. Specifying What information in the second paragraph is directly


related to the main topic?

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