Weather and Climate

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what are the world's major climates and how do they relate to biomes?
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Question 1

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What is weather?
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  • What the outside is like
  • It is the atmospheric conditions that we experience from day to day

Question 2

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What is climate ?
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  • The average weather conditions of a place over several decades
  • What a place is like all the time

Question 3

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What is a certain places climate determined by ?
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  • Sunshine and rain
  • All weather
  • Temperature and precipitation

Question 4

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How is a map of global climate zones formed?
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  • Satellite pictures
  • From climate data collated from weather stations around the world
  • From rainfall results

Question 5

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What does temperature depend on ?
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  • Prevailing winds and rainfall
  • Sunshine
  • Everything

Question 6

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Sunlight varies ......
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  • Spatially and seasonally
  • With cloud cover
  • with all weather

Question 7

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What else does temperature depend on?
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  • Rainfall
  • Extreme weather events
  • Altitude

Question 8

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What does precipitation depend on ?
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  • Temperature
  • The country
  • Global atmospheric conditions

Question 9

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What two things does the global atmospheric conditions create?
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  • Wind and sunlight
  • Weather
  • broad bands of rainfall at the equator and temperate regions and low rainfall at the topics and the poles

Question 10

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How can these patterns be changed? (2)
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  • 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
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