Water Cycle
What are the phases of the water cycle?
Which of the following is a good definition of climate?
The average weather in large regions over a long period of time
What do we call a scientist who studies weather and climate?
A meteorologist
What type of clouds indicate there is a rain or a storm coming?
a grey blanket
Rain, Snow, hail
The average weather conditions of a region ?
Climate
What is the difference between weather and climate
Weather - a specific event—like a rainstorm or hot day—that happens over a few hours, days or weeks
Climate - the description of the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area
The sky has feathery clouds. What type of weather does this indicate?
What part of the watercycle involves water absorbing energy from the sun?
Evaporation
Climate covers
larger areas than weather.
How hot or cold something is -
Temperature
What type of weather does comes with a cumulonimbus cloud?
Dark, stormy
What is run off?
Water draining into a body of water.
What is someone who studies the climate called?
Climatologist
What are some weather precipitations?
Snow , Hail , sleet , blizzards , tornadoes and hurricanes
What are clouds ?
a mass of water drops or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
Precipitation - comes down from the sky
Evaporation - water becoming absorbed by the sun
What is Cryosphere?
water
When the latitude goes up the temperature goes __________?
down
What cloud will you see on a sunny day ?
Cumulus