STANDARD GRADE GEOGRAPHY WEATHER

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Although you have access to one of the textbooks
as you go through these lessons, you will NOT
have them for revision for your exams. All the
notes in your jotter will be needed for this
revision, so it is VITAL that your jotter is kept
at the highest standard!
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YOU are responsible for work in this
course. If you are absent, ask a friend what
you missed, and make sure that you
get caught up! Find out
if there were any handouts you



missed and ask the teacher,
using its number. It is easy to
fall behind, but difficult to catch
up again!
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STANDARD GRADE GEOGRAPHY WEATHER

• INTRODUCTION
• What do I need to know?
• The elements of the weather
• The methods used to forecast the weather
• The weather associated with fronts, depressions
  and anti-cyclones.
• The effects of weather on people.

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You also need to develop skills called ENQUIRY
SKILLS.

• How and where to gather weather information by
  measuring and observing the weather elements and
  recording them on weather maps.
• How to process weather information by using line
  and bar graphs. Also how to analyse weather
  information.
• We will be looking at ES later in the topic.

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MEASURING AND RECORDING.
Using page 9 of the PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
textbooks, (from now on called the textbook),copy
the 2A heading and table ( fig.2.1) that tells
you the ELEMENTS that make up weather.
Now take a copy of the book in class called
STUDIES IN GEOGRAPHY 2, pages 6 and 7. Copy the
seven notes on the elements found
there- Temperature, air pressure, cloud,
rainfall, wind, visibility and sunshine.
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In the last couple of pages we have used the term
RAINFALL, but this is not the proper term in
weather studies. It should be called-
PRECIPITATION
BELOW THE LINE
This means all the types of moisture that falls
from the sky!
HAILSTONES
DRIZZLE
SNOW
SLEET
RAIN
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There are sketches of the weather
instruments. Use the textbooks pages 9,10,17
and 18 to add labels to your copy showing the
important parts. Always label neatly and in the
same style. Labels are always best done in
PENCIL. Stick in your completed sheet neatly.
A
B
C
D
Not only do you need to be able to sketch and
label the instruments in an exam question, but
you need to be able to explain in DETAIL exactly
how they work!
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Once in the hyperlink, can you work out which
picture corresponds with which label!
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YOU MAY BE GIVEN SOME OR ALL TO DO AS HOMEWORK!
If so, do it on paper, not in your jotters.
QUICK TEST TIME! Part 1
1.Everyone should do all the CORE ( blue)
questions on pages 10 and 11 of the textbook.
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YOU MAY BE GIVEN SOME OR ALL TO DO AS HOMEWORK!
If so, do it on paper, not in your jotters.
QUICK TEST TIME! Part 2
1.Everyone should do questions 1-7 of the CORE (
blue) questions on pages 20 of the textbook.
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PLEASE NOTE there is a spelling mistake in the
book millibars should have two
ls, not one! (do not alter the books! )
In class, answer the questions on the next slide
about the elements.
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• 1.How do we describe wind direction? ( Im
  looking for one special 4-letter word in your
  explanation!)
• The compass direction the wind is coming FROM
• 2. Explain why the wind instruments are always
  located in the open.
  
• So they are not sheltered.
• 3. What units are used to record wind speed?
  
• MILES or KILOMETRES PER HOUR, or KNOTS
• 4. What is the difference between a barometer and
  a barograph?
• A Barograph records the reading, the barometer
  only measures it.
• 5. What units are used to record sunshine?
  
• HOURS

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Most questions about gathering weather data
involve finding out if you know how the
instruments work and where to locate them, and
different ways data comes to meteorologists.
These two elements have a handout to read, about
how they are measured and recorded.
Some elements do not have an instrument, but data
is gathered by observation and recording only.
Two of these are- CLOUD COVER and VISIBILITY.
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Here are some pictures of different types of
clouds
cumulonimbusclouds
Cirrus clouds
Cumulus clouds
stratus clouds
Altocumulus clouds