Here and Now
This term describes the condition of the atmosphere at a specific place and time, including temperature, humidity, precipitation, and wind.
What is weather?
This term refers to the long-term average of weather conditions in a particular region or area, typically observed over a period of 30 years or more.
What is Climate?
This location is where most of the Earth's water is located.
What are the Earth's oceans?
This field of study encompasses a broad range of scientists who investigate the composition, structure, and dynamics of Earth's atmosphere.
What is an atmospheric scientist?
This term refers to any form of water, liquid or solid, that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground, playing a vital role in the Earth's water cycle.
What is Precipitation?
Name three things you could measure that describe the weather
wind speed, precipitation, clouds, temperature, humidity, wind direction
Temperature and Precipitation
What are the primary measurements of climate?
What percentage of Earth's surface is covered by oceans?
What is approximately 70 or 71 %?
This scientist specializes in studying long-term weather patterns, analyzing data to understand climate trends, and forecasting future climate conditions.
Who is a climatologist?
This climate type will receive an average of 2 inches of rain each season.
What are desert climates?
This type of instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Distance from equator, distance from large bodies of water, prevailing winds, the sun, landforms, altitude, currents
What are factors that impact an area's climate?
Climates can vary based on the temperature of ocean current the land is next to. These are the two ways:
Cold ocean currents can create cold and dry climates. Warm ocean currents can create hot, and wet climates.
This professional specializes in studying and predicting short-term atmospheric conditions such as temperature, humidity, and precipitation.
What is a meteorologist?
A climate type that gets an average of 40-55 inches of rain each season.
What is a tropical climate?
This type of instrument measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
The pattern seen in Earth's climate systems show that starting at the equator and moving north creates this type of climate.
What are colder and more severe climates?
Hot air and water will rise because they are less dense. Cold air and water will sink due to the increased density.
A scientists that studies the distribution and movement of Earth’s water.
What is a hydrologist?
The increase in the Earth's average temperature due to greenhouse gas emissions is commonly known by this two-word term.
Climate Change
These three reasons make it difficult for meteorologists to forecast weather.
Weather is a complex system, weather changes often, there is a lot of data to collect
This human activity releases large amounts of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere and is a major contributor to global warming.
What is burning fossil fuels?
Currents that travel deep in the ocean due to their differences in water density because of variations in water temperature and salt concentration.
What are deepwater ocean currents?
Scientists who study the oceans and their interactions with the atmosphere, including oceanic circulation patterns, sea surface temperatures, and the role of oceans in influencing climate.
What are oceanographers?
What are the three most abundant gases in Earth's atmosphere?
What are nitrogen, oxygen, and argon?