What is weather?
What the outside is like
It is the atmospheric conditions that we experience from day to day
What is climate ?
The average weather conditions of a place over several decades
What a place is like all the time
What is a certain places climate determined by ?
Sunshine and rain
All weather
Temperature and precipitation
How is a map of global climate zones formed?
Satellite pictures
From climate data collated from weather stations around the world
From rainfall results
What does temperature depend on ?
Prevailing winds and rainfall
Sunshine
Everything
Sunlight varies ......
Spatially and seasonally
With cloud cover
with all weather
What else does temperature depend on?
Rainfall
Extreme weather events
Altitude
What does precipitation depend on ?
Temperature
The country
Global atmospheric conditions
What two things does the global atmospheric conditions create?
Wind and sunlight
Weather
broad bands of rainfall at the equator and temperate regions and low rainfall at the topics and the poles
How can these patterns be changed? (2)
By sunlight and wind
By the Earth's tilt moving the patterns westwards and the location of the continents in relation to the oceans.
By the gulf stream and the rainfall
