Weather and Climate 1
Weather and Climate 2
Weather and Climate 3
Weather and Climate 4
Weather and Climate 5
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Precipitation

what is any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the Earth?

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Relative Humidity 

What is the amount of moisture in a parcel of air at a given temperature?

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snow, sleet, hail 

What are types of precipitation that require colder weather?

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What are natural disasters that are affected by strong wind?

tornado, hurricane

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What are clouds? 


The thing we see in the sky when water vapor condenses.

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4 elements of weather

What are:

Wind, sunlight, cloud cover, temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, precipitation?

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What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?

the four forms of precipitation that we discussed

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instrument measures the air temperature?

What is a Thermometer?


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An imaginary line that wraps horizontally around the middle of the earth

What is the equator?

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a scientist that forecasts the weather

Meteorologists

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What is weather?

the temporary state of the atmosphere over a short period of time.

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What is climate? 

the general state of the atmosphere in a place over a long period of time.

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An instrument that measures the wind direction

What is a wind vane or wind sock?

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What is altitude?

 the height of an object above sea level

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What are weather stations?

The place we gather information about the weather using different instruments

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True or False- Weather changes constantly.

True 

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True or False- Climate takes many years to change.

True. 

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an instrument measures the wind speed

What is an Anemometer?

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 2 reasons that global warming is a problem

changes in temperature and less of a water supply

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What is a wind sock?

you will find this weather instrument at airports and on the beaches

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What is a pattern over 30 years versus the weather conditions for a short period of time?

the main difference in weather and climate

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what is 30 years or more

Number of years data must be gathered to be considered climate

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What is a rain gauge or pulviometer?

instrument used to measure the amount of precipitation that fell

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three of the climate zones that we studied

 What are tropical, sub-tropical, polar, temperate, dry/desert zones

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What is percolation?

The process by which water is filtered through layers of the earth