Weather influences the lives of everyone. The climate of any country depends on its position on Earth, its (1) ________ from the sea and how high it is. In countries which have sea all (2) _______ them, like Britain and New Zealand, winters are mild and summers are cool. There is not a huge change from one season to (3) ______ . Countries near the Equator have hot weather all year with some (4) ______ rain, except in deserts where it rains (5) ______ little. Above the desert there are no clouds in the sky so the (6) ______ of the sun can easily warm the ground during the day but it gets very cold at night. People are always (7) _______ in unusual weather and pictures of tornadoes, for example, shown on television. Strong winds and rain can (8) _______ a lot of damage to buildings and in spite of modern (9) ______ of weather forecasting they can (10) _____ surprise us.