Weather
Climate
Tools
Vocabulary
True/False
100

This is the amount of water vapour in the air.

What is humidity?

100

These are three important factors that affect climate.

What are distance from the equator, distance from the sea, and altitude?

100

This is what measures the amount of rain on a weather station.

What is a rain guage?

100

This is a person who measure weather elements.

What is a meteorologist?

100

Weather has five elements.

True! 

The five systems are temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and clouds.

200

This makes the clouds move. It can be warm or cold. It can be dangerous when it is strong.

What is wind?

200

This is a climate that has mild temperatures and is dry all year.

What is a subtropical climate?

200

This measures the humidity in the air.

What is a hygrometer?

200

This is how much of each weather element there is at one time in one place.

What is weather?

200

Meteorologists can predict what the weather will be like in the near future.

True.

This is how you know what the weather will be like tomorrow, or for the rest of the week.

300

This is the heat from the sun. It changes with the seasons.

What is temperature?

300

This is the climate that has hot summers, cold winters, and low rainfall.

What is a continental meditarranean climate?

300

This measures the speed of the wind.

What is an anemometer?

300

This is the weather over time in a general area.

What is climate?

300

The Earth has five climate zones.

True.

There are two cold zones, two temperate zones, and one hot zone.

400

These cause precipitation. They can block the sun's light and heat. At night, they help keep the Earth warm.

What are clouds?

400

This climate has dry temperatures and little precipitation.

What is a dry meditarranean climate?

400

This measures temperature.

What is a thermometer?

400

This is when water droplets cool and form clouds.

What is condensation?

400

Spain has three climate regions.

False.

Spain has five climate regions. They are subtropical, oceanic, mountain, continental medierranean, and dry mediterranean.

500

This falls from clouds. It is reain when the weather is warm and snow of hail when the weather is cold.

What is precipitation?

500

This is the climate that has mild temperatures and high rainfall.

What is an oceanic climate?
500

This is the combination of the different instruments that we use to measure each element of the weather.

What is a weather station?

500

This is a map that meteorologists use to predict the weather.

What is a weather forecast map?

500

Climate changes quickly.

False.

Weather changes quickly, but climate is more stable over time.

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