Chapter 5: Weather and Climate

CHAPTER 5: WEATHER AND CLIMATE

5.3 AIR PRESSURE AND OUR WEATHER

• What's air pressure?

• Low Pressure Weather

• High Pressure Weather

• Examples of problems to certains jobs for low and high pressure weathers.

Open Ended

What is air pressure?

Multiple Select

Three examples of low pressure weather:

• Storm

• Rain

• Sunny

• Hailstorm

Multiple Select

Conditions of high pressure weather

• Sunny

• Dry

• Thunderstorm

• Cloudless Skies

Open Ended

Give two examples of jobs that are affected by low pressure weather. Explain why

Open Ended

Give two examples of jobs that are affected by high pressure weather. Explain why

Let's review your friend's work together!

Examples of affected jobs caused by low and high pressure weather

Low Pressure Weather

• Construction

• Oil and Gas (off shore)

• Tour Guides

• Farming

• Builders

• Gardeners

• Painters

High Pressure Weather

• Construction

• Farming

• Pilots

• Taxi Drivers

• Gardening

5.4 Why is our weather so changeable?

Objective:

1. Explain why different air masses have different characteristics

2. Explain how the arrival of a front leads to a change in the weather

Open Ended

Look outside your window and explain what's the weather like today.

Open Ended

Done? Now, I want you to pretend to be a weather forecast. Predict what will happen in the next 3-4 hours. Explain why you think so.

Multiple Choice

I want you to look at the UK. Which type of cell is the UK at?

• Ferrel

• Poles

• Hadley

UK's Changeable Weather

• UK is located at a higher altitude - Ferrel Cell

• The RED arrow shows warm air

• The BLUE arrow shows cool air

Air mass and where do they come from?

• Air Masses are huge block of air with the same temperature and moisture content.

• The five air masses that reach the UK

Warm front

Means warm air mass is arriving

Cold front

Means cold air mass is arriving

HOMEWORK!!

YOUR TURN PAGE 77 (ALL)

PRESENTATION

1. FORM A GROUP OF 5-6

2. READ UNIT 5.5

3. USE JAMBOARD/POWERPOINT

4. GROUPS WILL BE RANDOMLY PICKED NEXT CLASS

5.7 What's a Tropical Cyclone?

Objectives:

1. Explain the formation of tropical cyclone

2. Explain the difference between hurricane, cyclone and typhoons

3. Describe the effects of tropical cyclones

What.... is that?

They are giant spinning storms (other words - low pressure weather systems) that forms over warm tropical waters.

What's the difference????

Typhoon, Cyclones and Hurricanes - ALL THE SAME. The terms are used differently because of the place it happened.

1. Hurricanes : North Atlantic Ocean and Northeast Pacific.

2. Typhoons : Northwest Pacific Ocean.

3. Cyclones : South Pacific and Indian Ocean.

How do they form? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPDoIrGUrEc

How it started?

• 24 August - Dorian grew from a storm in the Atlantic waters

• Category 1 - 119 km/h

• Category 5 on 1st September with over 320 km/h

PROJECT (20%) - INDIVIDUAL

1. Rewatch the videos in GC (read textbook if need to)

2. Create a project slide using powerpoint/jamboard/google slides (max 10 pages)

3. Content must include: Introduction, Formation and effects of Tropical Cyclones, Past events

4. You are allowed to draw/design however you like

5. ONE RULE: No PLAGIARISM! This includes copying from your textbook (only pictures are allowed)

6. SHORT, SIMPLE and SWEET! This is not an article!!

DUE DATE: 13th August 2021 (deduction of 2% for any late submission)