Geography

Classwork Questions

Unit 5.2: So what causes weather?

Q1. When we think of weather, we think about how warm or cold it is, or wet or cloudy, or windy.

Copy and complete the paragraph, using words from the brackets below.

(condenses, wind, cools, colder, Earth, rises, Sun, warms)

Places get warm because of the ________________. It heats ______________, which in turn
___________________ the air. The Sun also causes ________________. That’s because when warm air
_________________, _________________ air rushes in from somewhere else to take its place. As warm
air rises, it _____________________, and the water vapour ______________. That’s why we get clouds,
and rain.

Q2. What is water vapour?

Q3. All of these have something in common. What is it?

Hailstones- mist- fog- rain- snow

Q4(a). What is the atmosphere?

Q4(b). Which layer of it do we live in?

Q4(c). There’s no rain up in the stratosphere. Why not?