Weather and climate
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- Weather and Climate
- Rainfall
- Relief
- Warm, moist air travels over the sea caused by evaporation
- Air meets a hill and rises
- Air cools and condenses forming clouds
- Rain falls, leaving a rain shadow on the other side of the hill where less rain falls
- Frontal
- A warm front and a cold front meet
- The cold air undercuts the warm air, causing the warm air to rise
- The warm air cools and condenses and rain falls
- Frontal rain is the most common rain in Britain
- Convectional
- The sun heats water on the ground
- The water evaporates and rises
- The air cools and condense, clouds are formed
- Rain falls
- Relief
- Weather is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere
- Climate is the average weather over a long period of time in a particular place
- Climate is the average weather over a long period of time in a particular place
- Water Cycle
- 1. The sun evaporates water from large masses of water
- Water evaporated from trees is called transpiration
- 2. Water vapour rises and cools and condenses to from clouds
- 3. Precipitation falls as rain, snow, sleet or hail
- Trees can intercept water
- 4. Some water flows above ground as surface-flow
- 5. Water may infiltrate into the ground a travel as through-flow
- 6. Some water percolates even deeper through permeable rocks
- 1. The sun evaporates water from large masses of water
- Measuring weather
- Thermometer
- Measures temperature
- Barometer
- Measures air pressur
- Anemometer
- Measures wind speed
- Weather vane
- Measure wind direction
- Thermometer
- Rainfall
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