Year 7 - Geography
Impacts of climate change on the UK
Weather and climate: how do they vary?
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Unit Summary
This unit teaches pupils about the physical processes that help explain our weather and climate. Pupils will use fieldwork to investigate weather in their local area. Pupils will also learn about how and why our climate is changing.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to understand the impacts of climate change on the UK.
Key Notes
- Extreme weather events are becoming increasingly common due to climate change.
- Climate change effects include higher temperatures in summer, fewer cold spells in winter and an increase in heavy rain.
- Extreme weather events have social, economic and environmental effects.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Impact: to have an effect on someone or something
- Extreme weather: a severe weather event or any weather that is significantly different from the average
- Climate change: large-scale and long-term change in the planet's climate, including weather patterns and average temperature
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Climate change simply means hotter, drier summers in the UK.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
Extreme weather events are becoming increasingly common due to climate change. Climate change effects include higher temperatures in summer, fewer cold spells in winter and an increase in heavy rain.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'Impact'
to have an effect on someone or something.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: Climate change simply means hotter, drier summers in the UK. Correction: Warmer temperatures in summer and fewer cold spells in winter are due to climate change. There is also some evidence that the UK is also experiencing more heavy rain events.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Actions to tackle climate change Study Guide
- Anticyclones Study Guide
- Causes of climate change Study Guide
- Depressions Study Guide
- Fieldwork: Analysing, concluding and evaluating microclimate data Study Guide
- Fieldwork: Planning and collecting microclimate data Study Guide
- Fieldwork: Presenting microclimate data Study Guide
- Past climate change Study Guide
- The UK's climate Study Guide
- Types of rainfall Study Guide
- Weather and climate Study Guide
- Weather and climate forecasting Study Guide
- World climate zones Study Guide
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