Weather

Question 1

What is weather?

Answer 1

It is what the atmosphere or air is like a a particular time.

Question 2

What are the 5 areas we look at to measure weather?

Answer 2

Temperature, cloud cover, wind direction, wind speed, precipitation

Question 3

What is temperature?

Answer 3

How hot or cold the air is

Question 4

How do you measure temperature?

Answer 4

With a thermometer.

Question 5

What is wind?

Answer 5

Movement of air, can move up and down in a circle and across the land

Question 6

How can you describe or measure wind?

Answer 6

It is how strong or fast it is, and the direction it is blowing from.

Question 7

How do you measure wind?

Answer 7

With a special instrument called an anemometer.

Question 8

What are the type of wind for 5 km/h, 6 - 9 km/h, 20-39 km/h, 40 - 61 km/h, 62 - 87 km/h, 88 - 118 km/h, 119 km/h

Answer 8

calm, light breeze, breeze, strong wind, gale, storm, hurricane

Question 9

How do you measure the direction of wind?

Answer 9

You measure wind direction by the direction the wind is coming from.

Question 10

What are the 8 compass points?

Answer 10

N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW

Question 11

How do you measure wind direction?

Answer 11

Wind vane or a wind sock

Question 12

What is cloud cover?

Answer 12

It describes how much of the sky is covered by cloud

Question 13

What is precipitation?

Answer 13

Rain, snow, hail and other forms of water that fall to the group.
Rain = water falls in droplets
Hail = water falls as frozen raindrops during a thunderstorm
Snow =water falls as frozen ice

Question 14

When rain falls only for a short time and there are heavy drops of rain, what is it called?

Answer 14

A shower

Question 15

When rain falls for a long time and the drops are light, it is called …….

Answer 15

A drizzle

Question 16

How do you measure rain? It is recorded in which measurement?

Answer 16

A rain gauge. In millimeters (mm)

Question 17

How does weather affect people?

Answer 17

What they wear (hot/cold), what they do and even whether they are safe or in danger.

Question 18

Who in South Africa measures the weather?

Answer 18

South African Weather Service

Question 19

How does the SA weather service collect their information to measure weather?

Answer 19

From various places in the country, also aeroplanes and ships at sea, even from space. This helps them to know what the weather is like and how it is changing.

Question 20

Where can you read about what the weather is going to be?

Answer 20

Internet weather sites, TV, newspaper, radio, weather reports, also find forecasts for the next 3 , 7 or 14 days

Question 21

How do they show weather on a map?

Answer 21

With symbols

Question 22

What does climate describe?

Answer 22

It describes what the weather is usually like over a large area at a certain time of year, e.g. May to August are Winter months in South Africa. Rainfall also changes per season in the different provinces.

Question 23

South Africa’s weather is mostly …..

Answer 23

very dry compared to many countries in the world. Its rainfall is unevenly distributed, which means more rain falls in some areas than others.