- Define weather and climate.
- Discuss the difference between weather and climate.
- Describe ways of measuring weather observations: temperature, precipitation, wind speed, basic cloud type, wind direction, cloud cover and visibility.
- Produce climate graphs from a data set by hand and using Excel.
- Interpret climate graphs.
- Show understanding of why and how it rains: relief rainfall, convectional rainfall and frontal rainfall.
- Show understanding of the influence of different air masses upon a location. For example: the UK polar continental, polar maritime, tropical continental and tropical maritime.
- Describe the passage of a depression over a location.
- Describe the weather associated with anticyclones including the involved hazards.
- Show understanding of at least one weather hazard e.g. hurricanes, tornados or heat waves.
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- Weather, climate, temperature, precipitation, wind, cumulonimbus, cumulus, stratus, cirrus, microclimate, albedo, relief rainfall, convectional rainfall, frontal rainfall, air masses, depression, anticyclone, pressure.
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