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?
What are natural disasters that are affected by strong wind?
tornado, hurricane
What are clouds?
The thing we see in the sky when water vapor condenses.
4 elements of weather
What are:
Wind, sunlight, cloud cover, temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, precipitation?
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
the four forms of precipitation that we discussed
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
What is weather?
the temporary state of the atmosphere over a short period of time.
What is climate?
the general state of the atmosphere in a place over a long period of time.
An instrument that measures the wind direction
What is a wind vane or wind sock?
What is altitude?
the height of an object above sea level
What are weather stations?
The place we gather information about the weather using different instruments
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
changes in temperature and less of a water supply
What is a wind sock?
you will find this weather instrument at airports and on the beaches
What is a pattern over 30 years versus the weather conditions for a short period of time?
the main difference in weather and climate
what is 30 years or more
Number of years data must be gathered to be considered climate
What is a rain gauge or pulviometer?
instrument used to measure the amount of precipitation that fell
three of the climate zones that we studied
What are tropical, sub-tropical, polar, temperate, dry/desert zones
What is percolation?
The process by which water is filtered through layers of the earth