Weather, climate and rain
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write two weather words for today and one climate sentence about your town.
Answers differ. Check that today’s weather and the usual pattern are not mixed up.
2
It rains 9 mm an hour for 3 hours. How many mm of rain fall?
9 × 3 = 27 mm.
3
Draw winter in Alexandria and winter in Luxor with weather symbols. Write one difference.
For example: Alexandria has cool, rainy winters; Luxor has warm days and hardly any rain.
4
A town has 3 wet months. How many dry months does it have?
12 − 3 = 9 dry months.
5
Why is a flood more likely beside a river than on a high hill?
The land beside a river is low, and the river can overflow after heavy rain. Water runs down off a hill.