Weather
This is the place where all weather happens.
Atmosphere
What is hail?
When precipitation falls as lumps of ice
How are humans creating the climate crisis?
By producing too many greenhouse gases.
What instrument do we use to measure temperature
A thermometer
This is how hot or cold it is
The temperature
What are the three climate zones?
Hot zone, Temperate Zone, Cold Zone
What are three types of extreme weather?
Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Blizzards, Hail, Heatwaves, Floods
What is another name for the climate crisis?
Climate Change or Global Warming
What climate zone is Spain in?
Temperate
What are the three types of precipitation?
Rain, Snow, Hail
Which climate zone experiences all 4 seasons?
Temperate
Natural processes in the atmopshere
Why are the sea levels rising?
Because the polar ice is melting.
Name a type of warning system a country uses to prepare for extreme weather.
What instrument do we use to measure rainfall?
Rain gauge
What are the two causes of the climate zones?
Earth´s tilt and Earth´s rotation around the sun
What is extreme weather?
Why is diet responsible for climate change?
Eating a lot of meat is bad for our planet because we need lost of power and food to farm animals for meat
In the past, when people didn´t have instruments to measure weather, what did they do to try to predict weather?
Look to nature.
Watching the color of the sky and the shape of clouds. Watching animals behavior.
What are the three main elements of weather?
Temperature, Precipitation, and Wind
The hot zone is between these two Tropics.
Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn
How do countries preare for extreme weather?
With a warning system.
Explain the greenhouse effect
Heat from the sun warms Earth´s surface, that heat (along with gases humans produce) get trapped in the atmosphere
What agency in Spain collects weather data?
AEMET, Agencia Estatal de Meterologia