What is climate? Write your own definition of the word climate

What is climate? Climate is not the same as weather. Weather is the day to day, even hour to hour, condition of Earth’s lower atmosphere. This means how the amount of rain, sun or wind changes on a regular basis. However, climate is the long term average of atmospheric conditions at a particular place on the Earth’s surface. Britain has a TEMPERATE climate – it has no extremes. Write your own definition of the word climate

Climate Types. Lesson Objective: To know, understand and compare two different climate types. Lesson Outcome: To describe with data and examples two main climates. To explain in your own words, and with examples, the characteristics of a Tropical Rainforest Climate and the European Temperate climate. To compare and contrast these two different climate types, using specific examples and data.

How different is the climate in these two places? Tropical rainforest Bradgate Park, Leicestershire

The UK (Temperate) climate Task 2: Watch the two short videos, make brief notes on your spider diagram of the key aspects of each climate. The UK (Temperate) climate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDJ0L0Fvu0

Tropical Rainforest Climate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS2VrgRFCzc Task 3: Add extra information to your spider diagram from the next two slides.

Tropical Rainforest Climate

Temperate climate. Temperate latitudes of the Earth lie between the subtropics and the polar circles. Average yearly temperatures in these regions are not extreme, not burning hot nor freezing cold. Temperate means moderate. Unlike in the tropics, temperatures can vary greatly here, between summer and winter. Thus, most places with a temperate climate have four seasons: summer, autumn, winter and spring.

Equatorial climate. The climate is characterized by no dry season – all months have at least 2.36 inches of rain. Tropical rainforest climates have no pronounced summer or winter; it is typically hot and wet throughout the year and rainfall is both heavy and frequent. One day in an equatorial climate can be very similar to the next, while the change in temperature between day and night may be larger than the average change in temperature between "summer" and "winter".

Explain the characteristics of a Tropical Rainforest Climate and the European Temperate climate. Task 4: Use your video notes and the PowerPoint slides to describe the key characteristics of each type of climate. In your own words compare and contrast these two different climate types.