UK Weather

Weather is ...

• The short term state of the atmosphere

• The long term state of the atmosphere

• The same as the climate

Climate is...

• The day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere at a particular place

• The average weather conditions of a place taken over a period of time

• The same as weather

The higher the altitude...

• The hotter it gets

• The colder it gets

• doesn't affect the climate

All of the following are factors that affect climate except one, which is it?

• Distance from the sea

• Altitude

• Latitude

• Longitude

Maritime air masses travel over

• The land

• The sea

• They don't travel over anything ...they come from space...

Polar air masses tend to bring

• Mixed temperatures

• Warmer temperatures

• Colder temperatures

• Tropical weather

Tropical continental air masses bring...

• cold, wet weather conditions

• cold, dry weather conditions

• warm, wet weather conditions

• warm, dry weather conditions

Oceans heat up and cool down...

• Much more quickly than land

• Much more slowly than land

• About the same as land

• They don't change temperature, they stay the same