//Weather and Climates

Question 1

What are the 3 types of clouds

Answer 1

Cirus: streaky, brushed across sky, crystals of ice
Cumulus: fluffy, medium height, fine weather
Stratus: thick blankets covering the sky, low, precipitation

Question 2

What are the 3 types of rain

Answer 2

Convectional: evaporation and precipitation cycle
Relief: warm air cools at high land, rains
Cyclonic: warm air condenses from cool air when meet

Question 3

Measuring (units, instrument, recorded)
Atmospheric pressure:
Temperature:
Wind
Humidity:
Sunshine:
Precipitation:

Answer 3

Atmospheric pressure: millibars, barometer, barograph
Temperature: C, thermometer, temperature table
Wind: direction-wind vain strength/speed: anemometer, 0-12 Beaufort Scale
Humidity: percentage, hygrometer- 1 wet - 1 dry
Sunshine: sunshine hours, campbell strokes recorder, isohells
Precipitation: mm, rain gage, isohyets

Question 4

To Bake Cookies We Have Eggs

Answer 4

Thundra
Boreal
Cool Temperature Oceanic 
Warm temperature oceanic
Hot desert climate 
Equitorial

Question 5

Thundra Climate
Where?
Precipitation?
Temperature?
Vegetation?
Effect on population

Answer 5

• Latitude 60-70C North. Upper part of Russia, Canada, Alaska, Greenland
• 10 inches per year, dry weather, top soil=dry (permafrost)
• Vegetation is barren, only shrubs, plants, perennial
• Wild life: polar bears, snow geese, most migrate and lay eggs
• Population: global warming will melt permafrost

Question 6

Hot Desert Climate
Where?
Precipitation?
Temperature?
Vegetation?
Effect on population

Answer 6

• 15-30C North + South
• 100mm of rain per year (trade winds absorb moisture, cool ocean currents loose moisture)
• Very hot summers, 45C, close to equator
• Vegetation has shortage of water, store water from underground, barren (humans cannot benefit), shortage of food
• Growing population but shortages of water

Question 7

Effects on climate

Answer 7

Latitude:distance from the equator / further away from equator = colder - no direct sun rays and less hours of sunlight
Altitude: height above sea level / higher up = colder - decrease 1 degree for every 150m
Prevailing winds: winds blow most frequently over an area. Affect the climates of the places they blow - northerly are cooler, southerly winds warmer

Question 8

How a wind bane and annemeter works

Answer 8

Wind vane: direction of wind. spinning and pointing direction of the way wind is blowing
Annemeter: Speed of wind - arms attached to vertical rod. cups rotate as the wind blows and the amount of times it rotates is recorded

Question 9

Cyclonic rain

Answer 9

• caused by cyclonic activity
• occurs along the fronts of the cyclone
• formed when two masses of air of different temperature, humidity and density meets.
  eg. meeting of moisture in warm tropical wind with a polar air mass.
• layer separating them is called the front.

Question 10

Conventional rain

Answer 10

• sun heats the ground and warm air rises.
• As the air rises it cools and water vapour condenses to form clouds. When the condensation point is reached, clouds are formed.
• Heavy rain storms occur.

Question 11

Relief rain

Answer 11

• occurs along coastal areas where a line of hills runs along the coast.
• wet onshore wind from the sea meets a mountain or any Barrier, it is forced to rise along the slope and cools.
• When the air temperature falls, water vapour condenses to form clouds.