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Year 9 Science - Worksheet

This document contains a Year 9 science assignment on meteorology and clouds and wind. It includes 10 questions on topics like the water cycle, layers of the atmosphere, cold fronts, warm fronts, dew point, the Beaufort scale, the Coriolis effect, sea breezes, and pressure systems. Students are asked to write brief outlines or descriptions for each question.

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Year 9 Science - Worksheet

This document contains a Year 9 science assignment on meteorology and clouds and wind. It includes 10 questions on topics like the water cycle, layers of the atmosphere, cold fronts, warm fronts, dew point, the Beaufort scale, the Coriolis effect, sea breezes, and pressure systems. Students are asked to write brief outlines or descriptions for each question.

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  • Clouds and Wind Introduction
  • Cold and Warm Fronts
  • Weather Patterns and Phenomena

Year 9 Science Meteorology Clouds and wind

Year 9 Science (AAA) – Meteorology Unit.


Clouds and wind.

1. The water cycle: Write a brief outline of the major features of this process.

2. The Atmosphere.
a. The Atmosphere is made up of _______ layers. The ________________ is

where Earth’s weather takes place. The Ozone layer lies beyond the

__________________. These layers flow one into the other, but as a general

you know you have entered the Stratosphere when conditions become more

_________________ and the temperature begins to _____________.

b. Aircraft will fly in the ___________________ as it is a _____________zone.

c. The __________________forms the boundary between the Troposphere and the

Stratosphere.
Year 9 Science Meteorology Clouds and wind

3. Cold fronts. Write a brief outline of the process of a cold front.

4. Warm fronts: Write a brief outline of the process of a warm front.


Year 9 Science Meteorology Clouds and wind

5. When the _______________ in the air reaches ______________ it will settle on the

ground as ___________ (or frost, should the temperature be low enough).

6. The Beaufort Scale: Using the chart of the Beaufort Scale, write a brief description

of the conditions that are categorised as a “strong breeze”.

7. Would all planetary bodies experience the Coriolis Effect? Give a brief reason for

your answer.

8. People living on the coast will look forward to the evening breeze. What

phenomenon might they be anticipating? Write a brief explanation.

9. Why do we associate unsettled weather with cells of low pressure?

10. It is due to the _______________________________ that cells of high and low

pressure flow in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

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