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- Keep a daily record of the weather from your own observations
for at least one month to include at least four of the following:
- Wind force and direction;
- Cloud type and amount;
- Weather - using Beaufort scale;
- Temperature;
- Pressure;
- Rainfall amount.
- Understand the working principles of the following instruments
and construct a simple version of one of them:
- Thermometer;
- Barometer;
- Sunshine recorder;
- Anemometer;
- Rain guage.
- Understand at least three different ways in which clouds are
formed.
- Know the typical weather produced in your own area by 'warm'
and 'cold' air masses in summer and winter, noting the different
effects of land and sea tracks. Understand the weather associated
with a change of air mass at 'fronts'.
- Know how synoptic weather maps are produced and be able to
understand a simple map, with fronts and isobars, similar to those
shown on television and printed in some newspapers. Relate your
observations in requirement 1 to these maps.
- Understand the effects of temperature, wind and water on the
human body in cases of hypothermia and exhaustion.
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