Unit 5.2 Changing Weather Conditions

What is a weather forecast or prediction?

• Random guess

• Educated guess

Weather Scientists have to collect i------------ about temperature, rainfall, wind, cloud and sunshine to forecast the weather.

Symbols are used on the map to show not only different places but also the weather.

• True

• False

The weather forecast is Important to many people in their work, particularly those who work -----------.

• indoors

• outdoors

The weather forecasts are not announced in the ----------.

• TV & Radio

• Newspapers

• Websites

• Novel

The information to produce the weather forecasts comes from ------- and --------.

• ship

• rocket

• aircraft

• train

S------------ continuously photograph the Earth’s surface from space.

A weather balloon contains i----------- that measure the weather conditions high in the sky.

Weather scientists, called m-------------, analyse all the information about the weather using computers.

Altogether there are about -------- weather stations all over the world.

• 10,000

• 11,000

• 12,000

• 10,100