Weather vs. Climate
Weather or Climate: The average summer temperatures have increased over the last ten years.
What is Climate?
Wispy, feather-like clouds that bring fair weather.
What are CIRRUS CLOUDS?
What is a THERMOMETER?
The four types of precipitation.
What is RAIN, SNOW, SLEET, and HAIL?
An affix added to names of clouds to indicate precipitation or rain.
What is NIMBO-?
Weather or Climate: The thunderstorm dropped about three centimeters of rain today.
What is WEATHER?
Gray, blanket-like clouds that stretch across the sky and bring steady drizzle or long periods of precipitation.
Weather instrument used to measure the amount of rainfall or precipitation.
Frozen precipitation melts in warm air and reaches the surface.
Weather instrument used to measure the air pressure.
What is a BAROMETER?
The conditions in one day.
What is WEATHER?
What are CUMULUS CLOUDS?
Weather instrument used to measure the amount of water vapor in the air or the humidity.
Frozen precipitation melts in warm air and then refreezes before reaching the surface.
What is SLEET?
Term used when sky is covered with clouds.
What is the OVERCAST?
The conditions over a long time.
What is CLIMATE?
Stratus clouds that form low to the ground.
What is FOG?
What is a WIND VANE? (Sometimes called a weather vane)
Frozen precipitation falls through cold air and reaches the surface. No melting occurs.
What is SNOW?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is HUMIDITY?
Most affects the temperature of an area?
What is LATITUDE?
Dark clouds that stack vertically and bring storms and severe weather.
What are CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS?
What is an ANEMOMETER?
Pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
What is HAIL?
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth’s surface as rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
What is the PRECIPITATION?