Climate
What is a change in weather patterns over many years called?
Climate change
What is the condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place called
weather
What is water frozen into tiny crystals that stick together and fall from the sky?
snow
What are clouds that form close to the ground?
Fog
What tool measures temperature?
Thermometer
What climate zone is Antarctica located in since it is always cold?
Polar
What is moving air?
Wind
What is it called when the water changes from liquid to gas and goes up into the atmosphere?
Evaporation
What is a collection of very tiny water droplets or ice crystals?
What tool measures wind speed?
anemometer
What climate zone does not get much precipitation and it is mostly snowy?
Polar
How can weather predictions help people?
Weather predictions can help people plan and be safe in severe weather.
What is it called when water falls from the sky to the ground?
Precipitation
What are wide, think layers of clouds?
Stratus clouds
True or False
The biblical worldview says that the earth has had many long ice ages.
False
What climate zone has a wet and dry season?
Tropical
How does the sun and atmosphere affect our weather?
The sun heats the air and causes air to move.
The atmosphere protects the earth like a blanket.
The atmosphere keeps the earth from being too hot or too cold.
What is it called when cooled water vapor changes to a liquid and forms clouds?
Condensation
What are fluffy, cotton-like clouds?
Cumulus
What is one reason that climates change?
Air pollution
Cutting down too many trees and not replacing them.
Changes in the sun's energy.
Volcanoes
Dust storms
Forest Fires
True or False
After the Flood ended, the earth's climate changed.
True
What storm forms over warm water and causes strong, swirling winds and heavy rain?
Hurricane
What forms in thunderstorm clouds and is a large piece of ice?
Hail
What are high, thin, wispy, clouds?
Cirrus Clouds
Using Genesis 8:22, how do we know that the earth will not become too hot for people and animals to live?
God promised to take care of the earth after the Flood. He also promised that the earth would have a seed time and a harvest. He promised that the earth would have cold and heat, that there would always be summer and winter, and that the day and night would not end.