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Competencies
C-2.1, C-4.2, C-4.4, C-4.7

• Critical thinking
• Information literacy
• Environmental literacy
21st CENTURY SKILLS
• Experiential learning
4 Weather and Climate

Warm Up

Tick () the season that causes it.

Summer Winter Rainy Spring

Weather

We generally describe the weather as hot, cold, sunny, cloudy, rainy,
windy, etc. These words explain the condition of the atmosphere. Weather

is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.

Elements of Weather

The main elements of weather are temperature, air pressure, movement
of air and moisture in the air.

The weather of a place is not fixed. It changes from time to time. It
affects our lifestyle, clothes that we wear, food and occupations.

Climate

The climate is the average weather conditions of a place over a long

period of time. The climate of a place remains more or less the same
year after year.

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