Lesson and links to work on the 2017 European heatwave

1. Contrasting Weather Events
2.3.4 A detailed study of two contrasting extreme weather events
located outside of the UK. One event must relate to a dominant long-
lasting high pressure system. One event must relate to an intense low
pressure system. For each event, coverage must include:
Causes
impacts on different groups of people
responses

2. The 2017 European Heatwave: a long term
high pressure weather event
6 a day
1. What’s the difference between weather and climate?
2. If air is rising, does that make high or low atmospheric pressure?
3. What happens to temperature the higher the altitude?
4. What is the name of the ocean current that affects the UK’s
climate?
5. What effect does this current have? (bonus mark for where the
effect is the most)
6. Apart from Egypt and South Africa, name 3 countries located in
Africa
07/05/2019

3. The 2017 European Heatwave: a long term
high pressure weather event
Today we are looking this event as an example of the effects a high pressure
weather system can bring. You have to create a spider diagram.
1. The causes of the heatwave. You will talk about anticyclones (high
pressures)and air masses.
2. The effects of the heatwave. As normal categorise this into social
economic and environmental. But also look at how different groups of
people were affected.
3. How people responded to the heatwave
4. Every time you mention an effect or a response, you need to locate the
country it happened in on your map

4. The 2017 European Heatwave: a long term
high pressure weather event
Your resources
1) An excellent 3 page article from “Wide world”
2) A geography padlet page
Create a spider diagram or a table to show the
causes, effects and responses to the heatwave.

6. Page 1

7. Page 2

8. Page 3