Climate Clues
A climate with four distinct seasons marked by warm summers, cold winters, and beautiful fall leaves in autumn.
We live in this type of climate.
What is temperate?
water that falls from the sky in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
~ a violent, funnel shaped, rotating column of air
~ up to 300 mph winds
Common in the Midwestern States
What is a tornado?
a scientist who studies, predicts, and reports on the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
~ a large wave caused by an earthquake or volcano in the ocean
What is a tsunami?
Climates located close to the equator, where it is hot throughout the entire year.
Parts of South America, Africa, and many islands are located in this climate.
What is tropical?
static electricity that builds up in clouds and is released as hot streaks of fire.
What is lightning?
~ a period of time when NO rain falls
Common in desert climates
What is a drought?
A tool that tells how hot or cold a place is.
What is a thermometer?
~ a large amount of snow or ice that falls or slides down quickly
What is an avalanche?
What is Artic?
water droplets that condense from the air when the air cools.
What is dew?
A large, violent storm that comes in from the ocean, carrying strong winds, lots of rain, and can cause destruction and flooding.
Common in the Southern States
What is a hurricane?
A tool that shows the direction of the wind.
What is a wind vane?
~ shaking of the Earth caused by the movement or shifting of tectonic plates
What is an earthquake?
The climate found in places like Florida and Southern California, where the weather is sunny and beautiful most of the year.
What is Mild?
What is frost?
~ a long lasting snowstorm with strong winds and snowfall
~ freezing temperatures
~sleet, icy roads
Common in Northern States and Colder climates
What is a blizzard?
One thing meteorologists look at the predict future weather?
What are past weather patterns?
a cloud on the ground.
What is fog?
A climate that is not defined by temperature, but by lack of precipitation. It can be cold or hot, but receives less that 10 inches of precipitation per year. It is very dry.
What is a desert?
balls of ice that fall from the sky. Can be small or as large as golf balls!
What is hail?
~ lakes, streams and rivers overflow
~ It rains so much that land can no longer absorb water.
Can be caused by hurricanes, melting snow, tsunamis, or severe rainstorms.
What is a flood?
Two ways the climates in Boston, MA and Naples, FL are different.
Answers will vary
The neverending cycle of water evaporating from oceans, lakes and streams, condensing in the clouds until as water droplets, and falling as precipitation back to the ground when the clouds become too heavy.
What is the Water Cycle?