Lesson Y7-U02-L01

Y7-U02-L01 Weather or Climate? Decoding the UK Sky Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 2

20 questions

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Lesson Y7-U02-L01, Weather or Climate? Decoding the UK Sky: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 2: Year 7: The Weather and Climate of the UK, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is weather?

    • The usual pattern of conditions over about 30 years
    • The average rainfall of a country each year
    • What the sky and air are doing at one moment or on one day
    • The height of the land above sea level

  2. What is climate?

    • The temperature reading taken at noon
    • The average weather of a place over about 30 years
    • The number of hours of sunshine in one week
    • The weather on one particular day

  3. Over about how many years is climate measured?

    • About 3 years
    • About 100 years
    • About 1 year
    • About 30 years

  4. 'It snowed in Glasgow this morning' describes which one?

    • Neither weather nor climate
    • Climate
    • Weather
    • Both weather and climate

  5. Which statement describes climate?

    • There is a thunderstorm this afternoon
    • It is raining outside right now
    • It snowed in Glasgow this morning
    • The UK has mild winters in most years

  6. Which temperature is a sensible average for a typical UK summer day?

    • About -5°C
    • About 18°C
    • About 600°C
    • About 45°C

  7. What is precipitation?

    • Wind blowing across the land at high speed, often on the coast
    • Sunshine measured in hours each day with a sunshine recorder
    • Water that falls from the sky, such as rain, snow or hail
    • Air pressure measured in millibars using a barometer on the roof

  8. On a climate graph, what do the bars show?

    • Hours of sunshine each day
    • Average temperature in degrees Celsius
    • Average wind speed
    • Average rainfall in millimetres

  9. On a climate graph, what does the line with dots show?

    • Average temperature in degrees Celsius
    • The number of days with snow
    • The height of the land
    • Average rainfall in millimetres

  10. On a climate graph, in which unit is temperature usually measured?

    • Metres above sea level (m)
    • Degrees Celsius (°C)
    • Millimetres (mm)
    • Kilometres per hour (km/h)

  11. Which type of graph shows average temperature and rainfall for one place across a year?

    • A population pyramid
    • A climate graph
    • A pie chart
    • A choropleth map

  12. On London's climate graph, which month is the wettest?

    • January, about 55 mm
    • October, about 69 mm
    • July, about 45 mm
    • August, about 50 mm

  13. Why does one cold day NOT show that a place has a cold climate?

    • A cold day always rules out a warm climate for the whole region
    • Cold days are never recorded on climate graphs because they are too rare
    • One day is weather, while climate is the average over many years
    • Climate is only measured during the winter months of the year

  14. A pupil says 'the UK is wet all year round'. Which is the correct classification?

    • Neither, because it is a fact about the sea and the rain it brings
    • Weather, because it describes one day's rain and the wind on that day
    • Weather, because rain falls from the sky and is measured each day
    • Climate, because it describes the usual pattern over many years

  15. Which month on London's graph has the lowest average temperature?

    • April, about 11 degrees C
    • January, about 5 degrees C
    • October, about 12 degrees C
    • July, about 19 degrees C

  16. Which season is the wettest in London, using the graph?

    • Summer, because July has about 45 mm
    • Spring, because April has about 44 mm
    • Autumn, because October has about 69 mm
    • Winter, because January has about 55 mm

  17. Why do climate graphs show averages rather than one day's readings?

    • Averages smooth out one-off days and show the usual pattern
    • Averages make the rainfall bars taller on the graph
    • Averages show the exact weather on the day the graph was made
    • Averages are the only numbers that a printer can show

  18. A friend says it snowed today, so climate change must be fake. What is the mistake?

    • They confuse one day's weather with the long-term climate
    • They forgot that snow is not a form of precipitation
    • They think snow only falls in the summer months
    • They are right, because snow means the climate is cold

  19. Which description best fits a climate graph?

    • A table of the wind directions and speeds recorded each day at one station
    • A drawing of the clouds seen over one week from a hill above the town
    • A map showing the height of the land above sea level across the whole country
    • A chart showing the average temperature and rainfall for a place each month

  20. On a climate graph, what do the bars usually show?

    • The population of the place
    • The number of hours of sunshine
    • The average rainfall for each month
    • The average temperature for each month

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