Weather vs Climate
Weather is what you _____________ and Climate is what you ______________.
What is Get and Expect?
What layer of the atmosphere is farthest from the surface?
What is the Thermosphere?
Air sinks: ________ pressure
Air lifts and rises: ________ pressure
What is High Pressure?
What is Low Pressure?
What two things determine climate?
What is Temperature and Precipitation?
Natural Climate(Milankovich and Interglacial Periods) change takes short or long amount of time?
What is a Long Amount of Time?
Climate is the average weather in any given area over about ______ years.
What is 30?
In what layer of the atmosphere does weather occur?
What is the Troposphere?
Clouds are classified using what?
What is Height and Appearance?
Higher elevation has what type of climate? (Think Colorado)
What is Colder Climate?
When will we see the effects of climate change like severe weather and rising sea levels?
What is We Already Are?
Paleoclimatology is the study of ___________
What is Past Climates?
The Ozone Layer is in what layer of the atmosphere?
What is the Stratosphere?
What front forms when a cold air mass pushes into a warmer air mass? (Hint: Thunderstorms occur here)
What is a Cold Front?
Due to the Rainshadow Effect, the leeward side of a mountain(side that faces away from the wind) has what climate?
What is Warm and Dry?
What is a severe thunderstorm?
What is Hail(1 inch or larger)?
What is Wind Gusts of 58 mph or greater?
What is A Tornado?
Ice Cores, Sediment, Pollen, Tree Rings, and Fossils are examples of what?
What is Climate Proxies?
What is the name of the effect that traps IR light (heat) in the atmosphere forcing that light to reflect back to Earth and increase temperatures?
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
What front is represented with half circles (rather than triangles)?
What is a Warm Front?
How do large bodies of water affect temperature and precipitation?
What is
Warm currents: warmer temperature
Cold currents: cooler temperature
Areas near water are cooler than areas further inland
Areas near water have higher amounts of precipitation
What is the middle stage of a thunderstorm?
What is Mature Cummulus Stage?
What 2 climate proxies did we use in an activity in class?
What is Leaf Fossils and Pollen?
What is the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, and Thermosphere?
True or False: can weather clouds produce, determine how they are classified?
What is True?
Precipitation is what kind of graph on a Climatogram?
Temperature is what type of graph?
What is a Bar Graph? (Precipitation)
What is a Line Graph? (Temperature)
What scale are tornadoes rated on?
What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale?