geog Flashcards

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Weather

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The state of the atmosphere; changes everyday.

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Climate

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The average weather in a place

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Frontal rainfall

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When two air masses meet, one hot and one cold. The hot air mass rises over the cold one.

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Relief rainfall

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Air is forced to rise over high land. Air descends, warms and becomes drier. Air cools and condenses, forming clouds and therefore, rain.

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5
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WELL DONE FLOZZZZ!!!! <3

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I SAID WELL DONE <33

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Conventional rainfall

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The heated ground warms the air and forces it to rise.

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7
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Equator

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The equator is very hot and rainy, it rains lot in the centre of Africa near the equator.

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Where is it the coldest? ( IRRELEVANT)

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Colder on high land and up a mountain the temperature falls. It is colder in the north because it is the furthest from the equator.

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9
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Climate graph

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Temperature is always plotted on a line graph whilst rainfall is always plotted on a bar graph

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10
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Weather station

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A place where people can measure the weather by using instruments. to collect elements of the weather, they are kept in a special area, the weather station. <3

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11
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What you can measure

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Temperature, rainfall, wind direction, air pressure, sunshine, wind speed.

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Anthermometer

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A delicate thing and often be kept in a box called a stevenson screen and is used to measures wind speed in mph.

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13
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YAYAYAYAY ALMOST THERE

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Sorry not quite there yet! <3

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14
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Wind direction

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This is measured by a wind vane or wind stock by pointing towards north, east, south or west.

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15
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Air masses

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Blocks of air that come from other pats of the world, and impact climate wherever they go.

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16
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LAST ONE WELL FOR ME ANYWAY Latitude <3333333

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The further north you travel, the cooler it gets.