Climatology

By Jenny Wilde

Activity 1

You are going to read about ‘climatology’. Before you read， answer these questions：

Do you know what ‘climate’ means？

Is the world getting warmer or colder？ Do you know why？

Activity 2

Check words a–g in a dictionary and then use them in sentences 1–7. You may need to change the words by making nouns plural or changing verbs for time and people.

a. continue   b. destroy   c. Earth   d. energy   e. fuel   f. produce   g. rise

1. Belgium ____ a lot of beer that is sold all over the world.

2. If you ____ smoking， it will be bad for your health.

3. Last week， a fire ____ Susan’s house. Now she is living in a hotel.

4. Leaving your television on all night uses a lot of ____ It’s better to turn it off.

5. The sun ____ at around five o’clock in summer， so it is light early in the morning.

6. The world we live in， the ____， is beautiful. Let’s keep it clean.

7. We need to stop at the petrol station soon because the car doesn’t have much ____.

Our changing climate

Climatology is the study of the ‘climate’ – the weather over a long time.

The climate doesn’t always stay the same. It changes slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years. For example， we know that in the past large parts of the world had lots of ice and snow. This slow change is a normal part of our world， but today’s climate is changing very quickly. The Earth’s tem