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🌦️ Weather & Climate – Year 9
Geography · Year 9 (KS3) — practise types of rainfall, pressure systems, air masses and reading climate graphs
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Questions
Which of these best describes climate?
The forecast for the next seven days
Day-to-day changes in temperature and rain
Average weather conditions over about 30 years
Conditions of the atmosphere on a single day
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Which instrument is used to measure air pressure?
Rain gauge
Hygrometer
Anemometer
Barometer
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On a climate graph, how is monthly rainfall usually shown?
As a line joining each month
As a bar for each month
As a pie chart for the year
As a shaded map of the area
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Why does rising air usually form clouds?
It warms and water vapour evaporates
It gets denser and sinks back down
It picks up moisture from the upper air
It cools and water vapour condenses
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In convectional rainfall, what makes the air rise?
The sun heating the ground
Air sinking in high pressure
Mountains forcing the air upwards
Warm air meeting a cold air mass
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In frontal rainfall, what happens when warm air meets colder air?
The warm air sinks beneath the cold air
The warm air rises over the cold air
The cold air rises over the warm air
The two air masses mix and sink
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A winter anticyclone sits over the UK. What weather is most likely?
Thunderstorms forming each afternoon
Mild, cloudy and very windy days
Clear skies, frosty nights and possible fog
Heavy rain and gale-force winds
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A climate graph shows a mean of 4°C in January and 17°C in July. What is the annual temperature range?
21°C
10.5°C
12°C
13°C
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Moist Atlantic air crosses a mountain range. Why is the leeward side usually drier?
The mountains stop any air from crossing
The air has lost moisture and warms as it sinks
Less sunlight reaches that side of the hills
The air cools as it rises again on that side
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Which air mass brings hot, dry heatwaves to the UK from North Africa in summer?
Polar continental
Polar maritime
Tropical continental
Tropical maritime
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