Weather hazards flashcards

Student task:
Here are 23 flash cards to test your knowledge on weather hazards.
1. Cut out each card and fold along the dotted line in the centre of each one.
2. Write your answer on the back of each card (you could glue the folded card together).
3. Use these flash cards to test your own knowledge on this topic area.

Draw a diagram showing the

General atmospheric circulation
model; include pressure belts and
surface winds.

How does global atmospheric

circulation help determine
patterns of weather and climate.

Suggest links between general

atmospheric circulation and
patterns of climate.

Name four weather hazards that

affect the UK.

Describe how weather hazards can

affect people in the UK.

Identify why some parts of the UK

are more at risk from weather
hazards.

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Provide evidence to show that

weather is becoming more
extreme in the UK.

List and explain the causes of one

recent extreme weather event.

Describe the social impacts of one

recent extreme weather event.

Describe the economic impacts of

one recent extreme weather
event.

Describe the environmental

impacts of one recent extreme
weather event.

Explain how management

strategies can reduce the risk of
one recent extreme weather
event.

Describe the global distribution of

tropical storms (hurricanes,
cyclones, typhoons).

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Show your understanding of the

relationship between tropical
storms and general atmospheric
circulation.

Describe the cause of tropical

storms and the sequence of their
formation and development.

Identify the structure and features

of a tropical storm.

Suggest how climate change might

affect the distribution, frequency
and intensity of tropical storms.

Describe the primary and

secondary effects of tropical
storms.

Describe the immediate and long-

term responses to a tropical storm.

Give a named example of a

tropical storm to show its effects.

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Give a named example of a

tropical storm to show the
responses to it.

Explain how monitoring and

prediction can reduce the effects of
tropical storms.

Explain how protection and

planning can reduce the effects of
tropical storms.

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