2.1 Extreme Weather In The UK

Question 1

What is high pressure?

Answer 1

Conditions of clear skies and dryness

Question 2

What is low pressure?

Answer 2

Wet, rainy conditions, sometimes changeable

Question 3

Mention types of extreme weather

Answer 3

Tornadoes
Blizzard
Hurricane
Flooding
Drought
Thunderstorms

Question 4

What is extreme weather?

Answer 4

Dangerous act of nature fueled by changes in the atmosphere that put lives and properties at risk

Question 5

What is a common example of extreme weather conditions experienced in the UK?

Answer 5

Beast from the east (2018)

Question 6

What is a huge block of air that moves around as cold or warm air?

Answer 6

Air mass

Question 7

How does warm air mass cause rain (in the UK)?

Answer 7

It picks up the moisture of the warm oceans and then settles (over the UK)

Question 8

Why is cold air mass usually dry?

Answer 8

Cold air mass picks up cold temp. over the icy land i.e polar ice cap.

Question 9

What’s maritime and polar?

Answer 9

Over water and north

Question 10

Why is the UK weather often describes as variable?

Answer 10

This is because Many different air masses meet and bring different weathers with them.
For example cold and warm air masses come from north and south respectively and settles.