Weather and Climate 1
Precipitation
what is any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the Earth?
Relative Humidity
What is the amount of moisture in a parcel of air at a given temperature?
snow, sleet, hail
What are types of precipitation that require colder weather?
tornado, hurricane
What are natural disasters that are affected by strong wind?
The thing we see in the sky when water vapor condenses.
What are clouds?
4 elements of weather
What are:
Wind, sunlight, cloud cover, temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, precipitation?
the four forms of precipitation that we discussed
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
instrument measures the air temperature?
What is a Thermometer?
An imaginary line that wraps horizontally around the middle of the earth
What is the equator?
a scientist that forecasts the weather
Meteorologists
_____________ is the temporary state of the atmosphere over a short period of time.
What is weather?
_________ is the general state of the atmosphere in a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
An instrument that measures the wind direction
What is a wind vane or wind sock?
the height of an object above sea level
What is altitude?
The place we gather information about the weather using different instruments
What are weather stations?
True or False- Weather changes constantly.
True
True or False- Climate takes many years to change.
True.
an instrument measures the wind speed
What is an Anemometer?
2 reasons that global warming is a problem
What are changes in temperature and less of a water supply?
you will find this weather instrument at airports and on the beaches
What is a wind sock?
the main difference in weather and climate
What is a pattern over 30 years versus the weather conditions for a short period of time?
Number of years data must be gathered to be considered climate
what is 30 years or more
instrument used to measure the amount of precipitation that fell
What is a rain gauge or pulviometer?
three of the climate zones that we studied
What are tropical, sub-tropical, polar, temperate, dry/desert zones
the process by which water is filtered through layers of the earth
What is percolation?