Vocabulary
What is temperature?
A measure of how hot or cold the air is.
What are temperate climates?
Climates with mild weather with hot summers and cold winters.
What is a drizzle?
Very small rain droplets.
What are oceanic climates?
Climates that are mild and rainy.
What is an anemometer?
An instrument used to measure wind.
What are tropical climates?
Climates that are warm all year round and have rainy seasons.
How is snow formed?
When a cloud is low and the air around it is cold and dry to where the rain droplets form ice crystals which fall to the ground
What are Mediterranean climates?
Climates that have high temperatures in the summer and mild winters and it does not rain much.
What is wind?
Moving air that can move at many different speeds.
What are polar climates?
Climates that are cold all year round.
How is hail formed?
It's formed when water droplets are pushed up by rising air current in thunderstorms.
What are mountain climates?
These climates have very low temperatures in winter and mild temperatures in summer.
What is precipitation?
Water that falls to the ground from the atmosphere.
What does winter bring with polar climates?
Winter brings darkness and temperatures as low as -50 ºC.
What is rain?
Water droplets that measure more than 0.5 mm across.
What are Mediterranean-continental climates?
These climates have very low temperatures in winter and very hot ones in summer.
What is a hygrometer?
An instrument used to measure humidity.
Where can you find tropical climates?
Countries with tropical climates lie between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is sleet?
A mixture of rain and snow
What are Subtropical climates?
These climates have mild temperatures all year round. We can find this type of climate in the Islas Canarias.