Year 7 - Geography
Past climate change
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 describe different types of evidence of past climate change.
Key Notes
- Climate change is the long-term shift in temperatures and weather patterns.
- The Earth's climate varies naturally and continuously over time.
- Climate change can involve both global warming and global cooling.
- Evidence of climate change comes from analysing ice cores, tree rings and the instrumental record.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Reliability: how accurate or able to be trusted something is considered to be
- Global warming: an increase in Earth's average temperature over a long period of time
- Evidence: a fact or piece of information that helps to prove that something is or is not true
- Climate change: large-scale and long-term change in the planet's climate, including weather patterns and average temperatures
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Climate change and global warming are the same thing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
Climate change is the long-term shift in temperatures and weather patterns. The Earth's climate varies naturally and continuously over time.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'Reliability'
how accurate or able to be trusted something is considered to be.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: Climate change and global warming are the same thing. Correction: Global warming is the increase in Earth's average temperature over a long period of time, whereas climate change is a large-scale and long-term change in the planet's climate, including weather patterns and average temperatures.
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- 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
- Impacts of climate change on the UK 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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