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Weather and climate affects all these areas : 1. our daily activities

2. our housing

3. tourism 4. production of electricity

5. food and water supplies

6. loss of lives and property

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Weather affects our daily activities. We make decisions to do activities based on

the weather.

Good weather allows us to do activitiesoutdoors, like kite-flying and wind-surfing.

Bad weather causes us to stop our activities.

We have to stay indoors.

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Climate influences where people choose tolive.

People prefer to live in places where it isneither too hot or cold.

People usually do not want to live in theSahara Desert or in Antarctica because of theextreme climates.

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Climate affects the type of housing peoplelive in.

In tropical countries like Malaysia where itrains a lot, people build houses on stiltsabove the ground to prevent water fromdamaging their property during floods.

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Different climates around the world attractpeople to visit different countries.

Many tourists travel from USA and Europeduring winter to enjoy hot and sunny climatein Singapore.

People in Singapore like to visit Japan and

Korea to experience winter as it is alwayswarm in Singapore.

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Strong winds can be used to turn vanes ofwindmills.

The vanes are attached to turbines togenerate electricity.

Wind power is a popular alternative toburning fossil fuels because it is clean andcheap.

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Different climate allows different types ofcrops to grow.

Oil palm and rubber are planted in Malaysiaand Indonesia where rainfall and temperatureis high.

Apples and barley are grown in temperateplaces such as Europe and the USA.

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When there is a drought where there is norain, rivers dry up and animals die.

Crops are destroyed and people sufferbecause there is food shortage.

E.g. in Sudan, a serious drought caused crops

to die, resulting in 500,000 people dyingfrom lack of food.

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Long periods of dry weather reduce the waterlevel in rivers and reservoirs.

This result in a lack of water supply forpeople living in the area.

If there is prolonged dry weather, water

supply in Singapore will be reduced since wedepends on our reservoirs and water supplyfrom Johor.

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Extreme weather conditions such as floods,heat waves and hurricanes can destroy manylives and properties.

A heat wave is a prolonged period ofexcessively hot weather.

A hurricane refers to a storm with very strongwinds.

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Due to a heat wave, the summer of 2003 wasone of the hottest in Europe.

Crops died of the heat and many people diedof heat stroke.

A fierce hurricane named Hurricane Ivan hit

Penascola in Florida, in the USA. The windswere very strong, causing buildings tocollapse and huge trees to fall.