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Significance of weather

Social Studies · Grade 7 · about 40 minutes

Examine how weather shapes farming, clothing and health, water, transport, building, sport and tourism, and how people change what they do.

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  • 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. Elements of weather
  2. Weather instruments and siting
  3. Significance of weather
  4. Responding to weather on the road