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e-Club Weather Honour

Weather e-Honour

Category: Nature

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REQUIREMENTS

  1. Explain how each of the following is formed: fog, rain, dew, snow, hail, frost.
  2. Identify either in the sky or in pictures, the following types of clouds: cirrus, cumulus, stratus, nimbus. What kind of weather is associated with each?
  3. Explain the action of a mercury or spirit thermometer, a mercury barometer, an aneroid barometer, and a rain gauge.
  4. Why is it possible to be rainy on one side of a mountain range and dry on the other? Give an illustration for your country or region.Show, with the help of a diagram, how the earth’s relationship to the sun produces the seasons.
    1. Why is it cooler and more moist in the mountains than in the lowlands?
    2. From which direction do rain and clear weather usually come in your locality?
  6. What causes lightning and thunder? What different kinds of lightning are there?
  7. With the help of a diagram show what a convection is? What is its relation to wind?
  8. Explain how radar, satellites and computers are used in weather forecasting.
  9. Tell how the following can affect our weather:Make a drawing showing the water cycle in weather.
    1. Jet streams
    2. Volcano eruptions
  11. Make a simple wind vane or rain gauge.
  12. Keep a weather chart for one week and record readings at twelve‑hour intervals. Include the following:
    1. temperature
    2. moisture (dew, fog, rain, frost, or snow)
    3. cloud formation
    4. wind direction.


e-HONOUR

We suggest that for the presentation elements of the honour you record a video of yourself and include it with your written assessment in your folder.  Your director will check all your work when your club resumes. If all is present and correct, your director can then decide if you may be awarded your honour.

Finished all your requirements?  Complete this form online, print off the confirmation and include in your club folder.

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