Geography: The UK's Climate
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- Created on: 29-04-17 13:52
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- THE UK's CLIMATE
- What impacts the UK's climate?
- latitude affects the concentration of the sun
- the north atlantic current
- the mass of the air which brings the UK its weather
- the wind from the south west
- what are the possible changes to the climate?
- an average temp rise
- less predictable rainfall patterns
- changing the seasons
- why will the changes happen?
- the north atlantic current will move
- more air masses from the north
- path of rain will be changed from wind and ocean currents
- economic impacts
- damage to cities from flooding
- warmer weather means different crops can be grown
- hotter summers mean more holidays spent here
- cost of protection from flooding is expensive
- environmental impacts
- sea levels rising means loss of costal land and more erosion
- severe storms
- drought
- ecosystem changes
- warmth encourages disease
- What impacts the UK's climate?
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