Climate, Weather and Farming
The difference between weather and climate, and how both affect growing food.
9 questions, free, marked as you go with a worked explanation on every one.
What this covers
- weather climate farming
The questions
- What is the difference between weather and climate?
- Which of these are measured to describe the weather? Select all that apply.
- Why does Alberta have cold winters and warm summers?
- A farmer wants to know which crop to plant. Which information is most useful?
- How could a long drought affect farming?
- Which tool measures how much rain has fallen?
- A wheat crop needs at least 250 mm of rain across the growing season. The rainfall recorded for the five months of the season was 42 mm, 55 mm, 38 mm, 61 mm and 44 mm. How many more millimetres of rain would the crop have needed?
- Many Alberta farmers plant rows of trees, called shelterbelts, along the edges of their fields. How does this help the farm?
- Use the table. A farmer is choosing which month to irrigate a field the most, because it gets the least rain naturally. Which month is that?