Subject: Geography

Topic: Elements of Weather and

Climate
Std: VII

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 Very cold Cold Mild

Which element of weather is discussed here?

Temperature

Warm Hot
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 What is temperature?
Temperature is the degree of hotness or coldness of air
at any given time.

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Exercise 1: What inferences can you make
from these?
Look at the given temperatures
at different places. Gangtok, Sikkim
Date 24/05/2020 Sunday, 11:00 pm
Time 11:00 p.m Cloudy Precipitation: 46%
Humidity : 92 %
Kolkata, West Bengal Wind: 3 km/h
Sunday, 11:00 pm
Haze Precipitation: 21%
Humidity: 87% Mumbai, Maharashtra
Wind: 23 km/h Sunday, 11:00 pm
Haze Precipitation: 5%
Humidity: 84%
Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Wind: 14 km/h
Sunday, 11:00 pm Precipitation: 0%
Clear Humidity : 46%
Wind: 5 km/h
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 Inference from previous task: Temperature
changes from place to place.

e 2:
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Does temperature varies from season to

season?

If yes, give example how?

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 What is the main source of heat
and light?

Sun

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 The energy radiated by the sun is called solar
radiation.
Do you feel Earth absorbs all the radiated heat?
Answer : NO
The earth absorbs a very small part of the
radiated heat.
The solar radiation that is received by earth is
called insolation.

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 Measurement of temperature
Can you name the instrument?
Thermometer
The Celsius and the Fahrenheit are
the two commonly used scales for
measuring temperature.
In the Celsius scale, the freezing
point is 0°C and the boiling point is
100°C.
In Fahrenheit scale, the freezing
point is 32°F and the boiling point is
212°F.

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 Quiz

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 Quiz
1. Name the instrument used to measure temperature.

Answer: Thermometer

2. What is the energy radiated by the sun known as?

Answer: Solar radiation.

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 Quiz
3. State true or false.
Mercury contracts when heated and expands on cooling.

Answer: False,
mercury expands when heated and contracts on cooling.

4. What is solar radiation that is received by earth called?

Answer: Insolation

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 Quiz
5. State true or false.
The amount of insolation is maximum near the equator and
it decreases with increasing latitudes.

Answer: True

6.________ is the degree of hotness or coldness of air at any

given time.

Answer: Temperature

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