Year 9 Climate

Question 1

What is weather?

Answer 1

Weather is the day-to-day changes in the Earth’s atmosphere

Question 2

What is climate?

Answer 2

Climate is the average weather taken over a period of time usually 30 years

Question 3

What climate zone is the UK in?

Answer 3

Temperate

Question 4

What happens to at low pressure?

Answer 4

The warm air rises cools and condenses forming clouds

Question 5

What are depressions?

Answer 5

Depressions are areas of low atmospheric pressure which produce cloudy, rainy and windy weather

Question 6

Where do you tropical storms occur?

Answer 6

5–15° north and south of the equator

Question 7

What temperature does the ocean need to be for a TS to form?

Answer 7

27°Celsius

Question 8

Or tropical storm areas of high-pressure low-pressure?

Answer 8

Low-pressure

Question 9

When was the beast from the east?

Answer 9

24th of February – 2nd March 2018

Question 10

What happens to air at high pressure?

Answer 10

The cool air sinks, there are no clouds