Weather and Climate 1
What type of weather does image 1 show?
Rainy
Snowy
What type of weather does image 3 show?
Stormy
What type of weather does image 4 show?
Windy
What type of weather does image 5 show?
Cloudy
Air temperature is one of the three ___________ elements
Weather
What is precipitation in Spanish?
Precipitaciones
What instrument measures the air temperature?
Thermometer
What is latitude?
The distance from the equator
Who makes weather forecasts on the news?
Meteorologists
_____________ is the state of the atmosphere in a concrete place at a concrete moment.
Weather
_________ is the general state of the atmosphere in a place over a long period of time.
Climate
What instrument measures the wind direction?
Wind vane
What is altitude?
The height of an object above sea level.
Where do we gather information about the weather using different instruments?
Weather stations
True or False- Weather changes constantly.
True
True or False- Climate takes many years to change.
True.
What instrument measures the wind speed?
Anemometer
What does the ocean absorb that warms the ocean?
Rays of the sun
True or False- Because the sea absorbs the sun, the coast is very cold.
False- it is warm.
What are the three weather elements?
Air temperature, precipitation and wind
Latitude, altitude and distance from the sea.
What instrument measures precipitation?
Rain gauge
What are the three climate zones?
Tropical, temperate, and polar
True or False- It is colder in higher altitude than in lower altitude.
True.