Weather elements
Weather maps
Climate factors
Climate zones
Spanish climates
100
What instrument do we use to measure temperature? (Spell it for extra points!)
Thermometer
100
What does this symbol represents?
Partly cloudy
100
Areas of high altitude have higher temperatures
True/False
FALSE
Areas of high altitude have higher temperatures
100
Altitude defines the three main climate zones on earth.
TRUE / FALSE
FALSE!
Latitude defines them
100
What Spanish climate is know for having frequent precipitations?
Oceanic climate
200
Name the 4 weather elements
Temperature
Wind
Humidity
Precipitation
200
What does this symbol represents?
Heavy showers
200
When a city is near the sea in the north emisphere has extremely hot summers and extremely cold winters.
True / False
FALSE
It is cooler in summer and warmer in winter
200
In what two regions of the earth can we find the cold climates?
In the North and the South Pole.
200
What climate can we find around the southern and easterns coasts of Spain?
Mediterranean climate
300
What is this instrument? What does it measure?
It is a hygrometer, it measures humidity.
300
What does this symbol represents?
Partly cloudy
300
A city near the equator is always warmer due to its longuitude / altitude / latitude / distance from the sea.
LATITUDE
300
What climates are found between the tropics?
Hot climates
300
What Spanish climate has the lowest temperatures?
Mountain climate
400
What is the difference between an anemometer and a wind vane?
An anemometer measures wind speed and a wind vane measures wind direction.
400
What does this symbol represents?
Hail
400
What climate factor affects the most the mountain climate?
Altitude
400
In Quito (Capital of Ecuador) we can distinguish summer, winter, fall and spring.
FALSE
400
What climate factor is the most important one to understand why subtropical climate is the most different one among Spanish climates?
Latitude
500
In which unit the rain gauge measures rainfall.
Millimeters (mm)
500
What does this symbol represents?
Sleet
500
A northern city is always colder than a southern city.
True / False
FALSE
In the south emisphere it is the oposite
500
The tropic of capricorn is in latitude 30º S . What kind of climate has a city located in 45º S 26 ºW
Temperate climates
500
Which climate factor is fundamental to understanding the differences between the Mediterranean climate and the continental Mediterranean climate?
What weather element is specially afected by this factor?
The factor is distance from the sea and it affects the temperature which is more extreme in the continental-mediterranean climate.