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What is weather?

What is weather?. The conditions outside. What is climate?. The weather over a period of time. What is an isotherm?. A line that joins equal points of temperature. What is an isobar?. A line that joins equal points of pressure. What is meant by the term relief?. The height of the land.

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What is weather?

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  1. What is weather? The conditions outside. What is climate? The weather over a period of time. What is an isotherm? A line that joins equal points of temperature.

  2. What is an isobar? A line that joins equal points of pressure. What is meant by the term relief? The height of the land. What is meant by a Albedo? Some surfaces reflect more heat than others.

  3. An instrument used to measure heat... Thermometer. An instrument used to measure pressure... Barometer. A low pressure weather system... Depression.

  4. A high pressure weather system... Anti-cyclone. Heating is least efficient here... Poles. Heating is most efficient here... Equator.

  5. Shown by blue triangles... Cold front. Shown by red semi-circles... Warm front. A combination of triangles and semi-circles... Occluded front.

  6. High wispy clouds... Cirrus. Blanket-type clouds... Stratus. Towering clouds... Cumulonimbus.

  7. Rainfall at the warm front of a depression... Continuous. Weather at the cold front of a depression. Thunder, lightning and rain. Between the warm and cold fronts of a depression... Warm sector.

  8. Weather associated with winter anti-cyclones... Frost, fog and mist. A problem associated with summer anti-cyclones... Drought. Land heats quicker than the sea... Continentality

  9. A tropical storm in the North Atlantic... Hurricane. A tropical storm in South-East Asia... Cyclone. A tropical storm in Japan... Typhoon.

  10. A greenhouse gas... Carbon Dioxide. Coal, oil and natural gas... Fossil Fuels. To replant trees... Reforestation.

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