Factors that affect Weather and Climate

1.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is climate?

Climate is the average weather conditions experienced in a location.

Climate is the weather in a place.

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is the most common factor to affect climate?

Latitude

Prevailing wind

Rainfall

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

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.

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

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.

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Where will the temperature be highest?

At the Arctic circle.

At the Tropic of Cancer.

At the Equator.

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

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.

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

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.

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

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.

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

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.

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

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.

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Two factors to determine climate are

precipitation and temperature

hurricanes and tornadoes

humidity and pressure

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

As altitude _____________ temperature ___________.

decreases, decreases

increases, increases

increases, decreases

decreases, increases

13.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which of the following will heat the fastest?

water

land

both heat at equal rates

14.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The _______ of a mountain range is the side that receives a lot of precipitation.

dry side

leeward/dry side

windward/wet side

cloudy side

15.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

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

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