Subject: Biology

REVISION FOR CLASS TEST -3

TOPIC: OUR CHANGING CLIMATE
1. Define the following.
a) Weather: It is a mix of atmospheric events taking place in a particular place at a
particular time.
b) Climate: is the long term weather patterns in an area.
c) Fossils: It is the remains of plants and animals that lived on Earth millions of years
ago.
d) Natural cycles of climate change: It is a cycle of cooling and warming, which happened
on Earth thousands of year ago.
2. a) List the factors that affect the weather.
i) Change in atmospheric pressure or air pressure
ii) Humidity
iii) Air temperature

b) Match the instruments used to measure weather

Instruments Measure Answer
1. Anemometer a. Wind direction 4.
2. Barometer b. Humidity 6.
3. Thermometer c. Wind speed 1.
4. wind Vane d. Amount of rain 5.
5. Rain guage e. Atmospheric pressure 2.
6. Hygrometer f. Temperature 3.

c) Complete the sentences using the words from the help box.
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 Farmers atmospheric pressure hills air temperature food manufactures

Lakes humidity 80-90 mountains peer- review weather forecast sailors 10-20

i) The wind direction and strength is affected by atmospheric pressure

2) The amount of water in the atmosphere is humidity

3) The number of clouds and formation of precipitation depends on air temperature

4) The local factors like ___lakes_________, ___mountains____ and ____hills_____________ affect the

local as well as national weather forecast.

5) Prediction of weather is important for food manufactures to know what type of food to make

in big quantities, ____ sailors __________________ to plan their journey ahead and

_____farmers__________________ to know when to plant or sow the seeds/ harvest crops.

6) The ___ weather forecast ________ is a prediction of what the weather will be like based on

observation by scientist and -factors like temperature, wind etc.

7) The ice age last around ___80-90______________thousand years, followed by warm period of

____10-20_______ thousand years ago.

8) _Peer –review_____________ is the process used by scientists check each other’s work before it is

published in scientific journals.

3a) Write any one similarity and difference between weather and climate.

Similarity: Rain, wind, temperature

Difference: Weather: Changes rapidly/small geographical area

Climate: Changes slowly but over a long period of time/ large geographical area.

3b) Name the following climate zone for the feature or description given below.

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1. It has mild summers and cool winters – Temperate climate

2. It is extremely long, very cold winters and short cold summers – Polar climate

3. It has hot and humid climate with lots of rainfall – Tropical climate

4. It has short, hot summers and long cold winters – Continental climate.

5. It has hot dry summers and wet winters- Mediterranean climate

c) The animal which moved from tropical to temperate climate is trilobite

d) 1. Name the time period, animals that lived and the climate during that period
Time period Animals Climate
10-20 thousand years Age of Dinosaurs Dinosaurs Warm

80-90 thousand years Ice age Wolly mammoth cold

2) Why did many animals and plants did not survive 2 million year ago?
During ice age, Earth cools entire land and sea/oceans were covered by ice/ frozen, so many animals
and plants could not survive in this cold so they died.

e) Here are the explanation of factors affecting the global climate change. Complete the sentences using the
suitable factors given in the help box.
Movement of Earth around the sun, activity of the sun changes, volcanic eruption and meteorites

hitting the Earth, carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere

1. They fill the atmosphere with ash and dust, blocking the sunlight reaching the Earth, so climate slows
down.

Volcanic eruption and meteorites hitting the Earth

2. When Sun is most active, Earth gets warmer and it is least active, Earth gets cooler.

Activity of the sun changes

3. When there is high concentration of carbon dioxide, climate warms and less concentration, climate cools.

Carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere

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4. When Earth is near the Sun, Earth warms, when it is further away, Earth cools.

Movement of Earth around the sun

4. a) Match the method used in investigating the climate change with its main findings.

Method Main findings Answer

1. Recording extremes weather events. a) Increasing every year 2
2. Analysing the level of carbon -dioxide in b) They are increasing in number and 1
the air. becoming more extreme.
3. Recording ice cover in polar region. c) Temperatures are rising steadily. 4
4. Measuring the temperature of the surface d) Ice is melting more each year 3
of the Earth in different places

b) Scientists tell us Earth’s climate has natural cycles of cold and warm periods. Name the different methods
used to investigate the events that happened millions of years ago.

1) Scientist analyse the air trapped in the ancient ice to find out the concentration of different gases present
in it.

The atmosphere in ice/ice cores

2) It shows us that huge plants and animals lived on the Earth millions of years ago.

Fossil evidence

3) It helps to identify types of plants growing in the area and whether the climate was warm or cold.

Pollen tells the story/ pollen grains

5) Weather forecasters used symbols to show what weather to expect.

Draw the symbols for the different types of weather.

1. Windy 2. Rainy 3. Snowy

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 4. Thunderstorm 5. Cloudy 6. Sunny

7. Partly cloudy/sunny