S2 Climate and weather — A level

Explore the data on these two pages:

• Worldwide annual temperature anomaly. It compares the average temperature for each year with the 30 year average from 1951 to 1980.
• Worldwide daily temperature anomaly. It compares each day’s temperature with the average temperature for that day.

Answer these questions in your book

1. Use this data to explain the difference between weather and climate. (2-3 sentences)
2. Explain why the annual temperature anomaly scale has a small range (-2 to 2 degrees), while the daily temperature anomaly has a large range (about -26 degrees to 50 degrees). (2-3 sentences)
3. Explain how “temperature anomaly” helps us to make sense of temperature data better than the actual temperature. (2-3 sentences)
4. Does the data show that the world is warming up? Justify your answer. (Justify means to give reasons). (3-5 sentences)