Geography: Climate and Weather

What is climate?

What is weather?

What kind of climate does the UK have?

What is air pressure?

What is air pressure measured in?

What standard pressure?

What does high pressure mean?

What does low pressure mean?

What does high pressure bring?

What weather does low pressure bring?

How is air pressure shown on a weather map?

Name the 3 types of rainfall

Why is there more rainfall in the West and North of the UK?

What is weather like in the North East of the UK?

What is the weather like in the South East of the UK?

What is the weather like in the South West of the UK?

What is the weather like in the North West of the UK?

What are the three main factors affecting climate?

What is latitude?

What is altitude?

When does a depression form?

What is the wedge of a) cold air and b) warm air, called?

Does the warm air and cold air mix?

What are cirrus clouds?

What are cumulonimbus clouds?

What are stratus clouds?

How are cold fronts shown on weather maps?

How are warm fronts shown on weather maps?

What are anticyclones?

What does high pressure bring in WINTER?

What does high pressure bring in SUMMER?

What is extreme weather?

Give examples of extreme weather

Give examples of extreme weather in the UK

Give evidence that the weather is becoming more extreme