Weather And Climate

Question 1

What does climate mean?

Answer 1

The average weather over a period of time eg 10 years. Taken from temperature readings and rain-fall over a 12 month period.

Question 2

What is the study of weather called?

Answer 2

It’s Called meteorology

Question 3

Where do we get the weather forcast from?

Answer 3

We get our weather forcast from the met.office who give the information to newspapers, TV stations etc

Question 4

How can you measure rain fall?

Answer 4

With a rain gouge

Question 5

How do you measure wind speed?

Answer 5

With an anemometer

Question 6

How do you measure wind direction?

Answer 6

With a weather vane

Question 7

How do measure sir temperature?

Answer 7

With a thermometer

Question 8

What’s a visibility meter?

Answer 8

It’s a instrument that sends out a beam of light then a sensor detects how much light gets through the sensor. If lots of light gets through its high visibility and if a little bit of light gets through its low visibility.

Question 9

What’s a thermometer?

Answer 9

It measures how hot it is (tells you how many degrees it is).

Question 10

Whats an anemometer?

Answer 10

It tells you how fast the winds blowing?

Question 11

What’s a barometer?

Answer 11

It tells you what the weathers like. If it rises it means dry sunny weather if it falls it means really bad weather. It works by measuring if air pressure is rising or falling.

Question 12

What’s a weather vane?

Answer 12

It tells you which way the winds blowing from.

Question 13

What’s a rain gauge?

Answer 13

It measures how much it’s been raining over a specific amount if time.

Question 14

What does temperature mean, what’s it usually measured in and what’s if measure using?

Answer 14

It means how how of cold it is, it’s usually given in degrees and you use a thermometer

Question 15

What does air pressure mean, what’s it usually measure in and what is it measure using?

Answer 15

It means how heavy the air is it’s measured in milli bars and it’s measured using a barometer

Question 16

What does weather mean?

Answer 16

Day to day changes in the atmosphere

Question 17

What does wind speed meson what’s it given in and how do you measure it?

Answer 17

It means how much of its hidden by clouds it’s given in oktas and you measure it using you eyes

Question 18

What does wind speed mean wats it measured in and what do you use to measure it ?

Answer 18

It means how fast the winds the winds blowing it’s measured in per hour and to measure it you use a anemometer

Question 19

What is wind direction what’s it measured in and what’s it measured using?

Answer 19

It means where the winds blowing from its measure in N E S W like on a compass and you use a wind vane.

Question 20

What does precipitation mean what’s it measured in and what do you use to measure it?

Answer 20

It means water falling from the sky in any form it’s measured in millimetres and to measure it you use a rain gauge

Question 21

What dies visibility mean what is it measured in abd what do you use to measure it?

Answer 21

It means how far away can we see on a foggy day it’s measured in km and to measure it you use a visibility meter

Question 22

What part of the uk in warm and damp

Answer 22

Sw

Question 23

What part of the uk is dryer (and cooler in the winter)?

Answer 23

East

Question 24

Which part of the uk is colder?

Answer 24

North

Question 25

What part of the uk is warmer?

Answer 25

South

Question 26

What part of the uk is wetter?

Answer 26

The middle

Question 27

What does closeness to mean?

Answer 27

It means it’s mild in the winter and cooler in the summer

Question 28

What are the 3 different types of rain called?

Answer 28

Relief rain, conventional rain and frontal rain

Question 29

What is relief rain?

Answer 29

It falls on high grounds in the uk we get relief rainfall on hill near the west coast

Question 30

What is convectional rain?

Answer 30

It falls on warm sunny days when the ground heats up. In the uk we get convectional rainfall during the summer

Question 31

What is frontal rain?

Answer 31

It’s where warm air and cold air meets, at a front. This rain often falls in the uk, when warm air from the equator meets cold air from the arctic

Question 32

What is high pressure?

Answer 32

It’s when the sir is sinking down on the ground - it often brings fine settled weather

Question 33

What do clouds do?

Answer 33

Keeps the heat on

Question 34

There are no clouds when ……….……….

Answer 34

The air is sinking

Question 35

At night what does water vapour do?

Answer 35

It condenses on the ground to form dew (or frost in the winter).

Question 36

What does no clouds mean?

Answer 36

There’s no rain and lite of sunshine

Question 37

What does low pressure mean?

Answer 37

Low pressure is when their so rising from the ground - it often brings wind and rain

Question 38

When the air is rising its …………..

Answer 38

Cloudy and windy and rainy

Question 39

How do you find how much rainfall there is for a year?

Answer 39

You add up how much rainfall there was in a year by adding how much rainfall there was each month and then add that up to make the total

Question 40

The sun warms oceans, lakes and seas, turning water into water vapour. This is called _. The air _ high up where its cooler, the water vapour _ into tiny water droplets. These form _. The droplets, leading to _. The water drops falls in any form of rain. Some water runs along the ground, and some soaks though it, heading for streams and rivers. The river carries the water back to the _. The _ is compleat.

Answer 40

Evaporation, rises, condenses, clouds, precipitation, ocean, cycle

Question 41

What’s a stevensons screen?

Answer 41

It has a slanted roof so rain doesn’t sit on the roof. Two thermometers
It’s white to reflect the sun
Has long les so if the floor is feisty it doesn’t get colder