WorksheetsFactors that affect Weather and Climate
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is climate?
Climate is the average weather conditions experienced in a location.
Climate is the weather in a place.
Climate is the weather in a place.
What is the most common factor to affect climate?
Latitude
Prevailing wind
Rainfall
How does latitude affect the climate of a place?
Temperature drops the higher up into the atmosphere that you go.
Temperature drops the further an area is from the equator.
Temperature drops at night when the sun goes to bed.
What is the main reason why latitude causes temperatures to be different?
It's to do with the curve of the earth and distance from the equator.
It's to do with the distance from the moon.
It's got to do with climate change.
Where will the temperature be highest?
At the Arctic circle.
At the Tropic of Cancer.
At the Equator.
How does prevailing wind affect climate?
Prevailing wind shows the main direction that wind comes from and can bring mild, wet weather if it blows over warm oceans.
Prevailing wind is the amount of moisture that can be found in an area.
Prevailing wind describes the speed of the wind in a particular place.
How does altitude affect temperature?
The higher up a place is the colder the temperature will be.
The higher up a place is the warmer the temperature will be.
The temperature remains the same throughout the atmosphere.
What is the usual rate that temperature will change in the lower atmosphere?
1 degree is lost for every 100m.
1 degree is gained for every 500m.
1 degree is lost for every 1m.
In the summer – how does distance from the sea affect the climate?
Warm breezes will bring warm air to the coast whilst inland will be cooler.
Cool breezes will bring cooler air to the coast whilst inland will be warmer.
Cool breezes will cool both the coast and further inland.
In the winter – how does distance from the sea affect the climate?
Warm breezes will bring warm air to the coast whilst inland will be cooler.
Cool breezes will bring cooler air to the coast whilst inland will be warmer.
Cool breezes will cool both the coast and further inland.
Two factors to determine climate are
precipitation and temperature
hurricanes and tornadoes
humidity and pressure
As altitude _____________ temperature ___________.
decreases, decreases
increases, increases
increases, decreases
decreases, increases
Which of the following will heat the fastest?
water
land
both heat at equal rates
The _______ of a mountain range is the side that receives a lot of precipitation.
dry side
leeward/dry side
windward/wet side
cloudy side
What makes global winds curve rather than move in straight lines?
the spinning of Earth
changes in air pressure
changes in temperature
differences in latitudes
