Weather instruments/data, factors affecting climate and Tropical Rainforests

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Weather instruments/data, factors affecting climate and Tropical Rainforests

Last updated over 3 years ago

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Which weather instrument measures air pressure?

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When the air has reached 100% the wet and dry bulbs have different readings.

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What type of isolines are shown on the map?

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Use the key to place the hot spot on a location with heavy rain

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Use the key to place the hot spot on a location with 15knotts wind.

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Drag the key terms to the correct factor impacting temperature

A) With increasing height from the earth surface there are fewer air particles to trap outgoing longwave radiation

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On the picture below place the hot spot where deserts are likely to be found

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Place the hotspot on the area of the diagram where Tropical Rainforests can be found.

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Put these statements into the correct order to explain why large cumulonimbus clouds form at the rising limb of the Hadley cell

The sun's energy is concentrated in a small area at the equator
Collections of water droplets are clouds
When the air is cool enough water vapour condenses around dust to form collections of water droplets
When air is less dense than its surroundings it rises and cools. Because of the intense heating air can rise quickly to a great height.
This causes surface water and some ocean water to evaporate and causes the air particles to have more energy
Water droplets then join to form water drops which fall as rain

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Which layer is most of the life found within the tropical rainforest?

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What is the name of layer A?

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Which of the following correctly describes the location of the tropical rainforests?

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Which of the following best describes the climate of the tropical rainforest?

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Click on the vegetation feature which gives tall trees support.

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Click on the vegetation feature used to increase cross-pollination through insects.

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Click on the two features which show epiphytes and drip-tips.

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Match the cause and effect of deforestation

Draggable item		Corresponding Item

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A community of plants and animals interacting with each other and their environment is known as an_______ 

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Match the definitions with the key terms

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Humus		large global ecosystem
Biome

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Drop the statements about tropical rainforest soil and the nutrient cycle into true and false

The rainforest soil is deep
The soil is very fertile
The soil is red because of decaying fruit
Epiphytes can absorb nutrients and moisture from the air

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What three letters are associated with this dam, reservoir and power station?

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In what country is the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve?

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Drag the text boxes to the correct places.

What is the word for groups of people whose ancestors have always lived in a place?

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The traditional farming type where a small area of forest is cut down and farmed for a few years before being allowed to regenerate is called _______ cultivation.

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The unsustainable type of farming where areas of forest are cut down and set on fire is called _______ and _______ agriculture.

Which of the instruments below are found in a Stevenson Screen?

Which weather instrument measures air pressure?

Which of the options below are features of the Stephenson screen?

When the air has reached 100% the wet and dry bulbs have different readings.

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What type of isolines are shown on the map?

Use the key to place the hot spot on a location with heavy rain

Use the key to place the hot spot on a location with 15knotts wind.

Drag the key terms to the correct factor impacting temperature

A) With increasing height from the earth surface there are fewer air particles to trap outgoing longwave radiation
B) At the equator the suns rays are spead over a small area, due to hit the earth's surface at a perpedicular angle. This causes higher temperatures.
C) At the poles the suns rays are spread over a larger area due to the oblique angle that the suns rays hit the earth surface. This causes low temperatures.
D) Fewer air particles mean fewer collsions can occur to pass on heat via conduction.
E) Water is slow to heat up and cool down.
F) The water impacts the temperature of the air above it (cold water coosl the air, warm water warms the air). This air then blows onshore and moderates the land temperature.
G) Therefore coastal areas have a small range of temperatures whilst inland locations have a larger range of temperatures.
H) Water is slow to chage temperature due to being transparent, so a greater volume of material can be heated than with and which is opaque.
I) Water wastes energy by changing state and through its particles sliding past each other. This also causes it to be slow to change temperature.

Altitude
Latitude
Specific Heat Capacity

On the picture below place the hot spot where deserts are likely to be found

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Which of these explains why deserts occur in part of the Hadley cell?

Place the hotspot on the area of the diagram where Tropical Rainforests can be found.

Put these statements into the correct order to explain why large cumulonimbus clouds form at the rising limb of the Hadley cell

The sun's energy is concentrated in a small area at the equator
Collections of water droplets are clouds
When the air is cool enough water vapour condenses around dust to form collections of water droplets
When air is less dense than its surroundings it rises and cools. Because of the intense heating air can rise quickly to a great height.
This causes surface water and some ocean water to evaporate and causes the air particles to have more energy
Water droplets then join to form water drops which fall as rain
When air particles have more energy they move around more causing the density of the air to be lower than its surroundings

Which layer is most of the life found within the tropical rainforest?

What is the name of layer A?

Which of the following correctly describes the location of the tropical rainforests?

Which of the following best describes the climate of the tropical rainforest?

Click on the vegetation feature which gives tall trees support.

Click on the vegetation feature used to increase cross-pollination through insects.

Click on the two features which show epiphytes and drip-tips.

Match the cause and effect of deforestation

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Loss of habitats...		increasing surface runoff.
Reduced interception...		reducing biodiversity.
Developing road infrastructure...		enabling illegal loggers access ot the forest.
Reduced evapotranspiration...		leaching of nutrients out of the soil.
Increased infiltration...		drying climate.
Drier atmosphere		increasing risk of drought and forest fires.

A community of plants and animals interacting with each other and their environment is known as an_______ 

Match the definitions with the key terms

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Humus		large global ecosystem
Biome		vines that hang from taller trees.
weathering		semi-decomposed organic matter
Lianas		debris that has fallen to shrub layer from the canopy above
Leaf litter		the breaking down of rocks beneath the soil.

Drop the statements about tropical rainforest soil and the nutrient cycle into true and false

The rainforest soil is deep
The soil is very fertile
The soil is red because of decaying fruit
Epiphytes can absorb nutrients and moisture from the air
Soil can quickly become infertile if the forest is cut down
Roots spread laterally in a dense thin mat in the top 15 cm of the soil
Decomposers and detritivores transfer nutrients from the soil into the leaf litter.

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False

Which 4 of the following are considered major threats to the tropical rainforest?

What three letters are associated with this dam, reservoir and power station?

In what country is the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve?

Drag the text boxes to the correct places.

What is the word for groups of people whose ancestors have always lived in a place?

The traditional farming type where a small area of forest is cut down and farmed for a few years before being allowed to regenerate is called _______ cultivation.

The unsustainable type of farming where areas of forest are cut down and set on fire is called _______ and _______ agriculture.

Which of the instruments below are found in a Stevenson Screen?

Whirling Hygrometer

Barometer

Maximum-Minimum Thermoeter

Anemometer

Digital Hygrometer

Thermometer

Match the temperature to the correct reading (scroll right to see more options

Which of the options below are features of the Stephenson screen?

1.25meter high legs so that air temperature and not ground temperature is measured.

Painted black to maximise absorbsion of sunlight

Slatted sides/louvres to allow air to flow freely through the Stephenson screen

Made of metal to ensure a long life span

Made of wood to minimise the absorbsion of of heat and insulate the instruments inside

Painted white to reflect sunlight/heat

Door opens into sunlight to make the instruments easier to read.

Door opens away from direction of sunlight to avoid artifically high temperature readings.

Placed in a sheletered location to prevent strong winds blowing it over.

Placed in open space to be away from shadows and to allow the anemometer on top of the box to measure windspeed accurately.

Which of the answers below can be applied to this picture

B) Contours

C) Isobars

D) Isohyets

B) At the equator the suns rays are spead over a small area, due to hit the earth's surface at a perpedicular angle. This causes higher temperatures.

C) At the poles the suns rays are spread over a larger area due to the oblique angle that the suns rays hit the earth surface. This causes low temperatures.

D) Fewer air particles mean fewer collsions can occur to pass on heat via conduction.

E) Water is slow to heat up and cool down.

F) The water impacts the temperature of the air above it (cold water coosl the air, warm water warms the air). This air then blows onshore and moderates the land temperature.

G) Therefore coastal areas have a small range of temperatures whilst inland locations have a larger range of temperatures.

H) Water is slow to chage temperature due to being transparent, so a greater volume of material can be heated than with and which is opaque.

I) Water wastes energy by changing state and through its particles sliding past each other. This also causes it to be slow to change temperature.

Altitude

Latitude

Specific Heat Capacity

Which of these explains why deserts occur in part of the Hadley cell?

A) As air is heated at the equator it becomes MORE dense so rises, cools and forms clouds

B) As air is heated at the equator is becomes LESS dense, so rises, cools, WATER VAPOUR condenses to form collections of water doplets which join to form water drops (rain)

C) As air has been moved polewards by the Coriolis force it cools, becomes LESS DENSE and rises, causing clouds to form.

D) As air has been moved polewards by the coriolis force it cools, becomes more dense and sinks, thus COOLING causing clouds to form by EVAPORATION.

E) As air has been moved polewards by the Coriolis force it cools, becomes denser and sinks, causing it to warm slightly, reducing the amount of condensation, meaning fewer clouds form, so less rainfall occurs.

When air particles have more energy they move around more causing the density of the air to be lower than its surroundings

Which of the reasons below explain the location of the Atacama desert

Which of the statements below apply to the climate graph?

Loss of habitats...

increasing surface runoff.

Reduced interception...

reducing biodiversity.

Developing road infrastructure...

enabling illegal loggers access ot the forest.

Reduced evapotranspiration...

leaching of nutrients out of the soil.

Increased infiltration...

drying climate.

Drier atmosphere

increasing risk of drought and forest fires. 

vines that hang from taller trees.

weathering

semi-decomposed organic matter

Lianas

debris that has fallen to shrub layer from the canopy above

Leaf litter

the breaking down of rocks beneath the soil.

Soil can quickly become infertile if the forest is cut down

Roots spread laterally in a dense thin mat in the top 15 cm of the soil

Decomposers and detritivores transfer nutrients from the soil into the leaf litter.

True

False

Which 4 of the following are considered major threats to the tropical rainforest?

Vineyards (growing grapes for wine)

Plastic pollution

Cattle ranching

Mining

Noise pollution

Palm oil and soya plantations

Changing climate

Sewage waste

Ecuador

Brazil

Aztecs and Mayans

hunter-gatherers

nomadic tribes

Match the temperature to the correct reading (scroll right to see more options

Current temperature

Maximum temperaure

Minimum temperature

Range

Mean temperature

24oC

31oC

19oC

12oC

25oC

Which of the answers below can be applied to this picture

Cumulus clouds

High altitude cloud

Cirrus clouds

Like cotton wool

Wispy

Clouds that contain ice crystals

Blanket like

Which of the reasons below explain the location of the Atacama desert

Trade winds bring mosit air that is force to rise over the Andes mountains, where it cools and condensation of water vapour occurs. When the air sinks on the westward side of the Andes it warms meaning less condensation occurs. There is also less moisture available to condense. These reasons cause a rainshadow.

Trade winds bring moist air that is forced to rise over the Andes mountains, where it warms and less condensation occurs. This causes a rain shadow.

At the descending limb of the Hadley cell cold air sink because it is more dense. As it sinks it warms slightly, so less condensation of water vapour occurs, meaning less clouds and less rainfall.

The cold ocean current to the west of Peru cools the air above it, meaning the air can hold less moisture, so there is less water vapour to condense.

The cold ocean current to the west of Peru means the water is harder to evaporate, so there is less moisture available to condense.

At the descending limb of the Hadley cell warm air sinks becuase it it less dense. This means less condensation of water vapour occurs.

Which of the statements below apply to the climate graph?

The warmest tmeperature is in July

It is a desert location

There is a small range of temperatures

The driest month is June with 2mm rainfall

It is a tropical rainforest location

The coldest temperaure occurs in the wettest month