Weather and Climate 1
Weather and Climate 2
Weather and Climate 3
Weather and Climate 4
Weather and Climate 5
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What is Precipitation?
Precipitation is any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the Earth
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What is Humidity
The amount of moisture in the air at a given temperature
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In which direction does a stationary front move?
They don't.
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Which is not something used to determine a region's climate?
A) amount of precipitation
B) number of people
C) average temperature
D) kinds of plants
B) number of people
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What front(s) causes clouds and rain to form?
all 4 of them
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What are 4 elements of weather?
Wind, sunlight, cloud cover, temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, precipitation
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How does altitude effect temperature?
It gets colder the higher you are in altitude.
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What part of Earth receives the most solar radiation?
The Equator
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What is latitude?
Imaginary parallel lines in distance from the equator
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Describe a low pressure system? What happens?
Air rises up causing clouds and precipitation to occur
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_____________ is the temporary state of the atmosphere over a short period of time.
Weather
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_________ is the general state of the atmosphere in a place over a long period of time.
Climate
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How does the ocean affect our climate?
carries warm and cool waters to help distribute heat around the globe.
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What is altitude?
The height of an object above sea level.
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Describe the prevailing westerlies.
Winds located betweenn 30 and 60 degrees latitude north and south of the equator. They blow from west to east
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A student goes to the beach. She thinks that at night the sand will get cooler faster than the water. Is she right? Why?
She is right because water has a higher specific heat so it takes longer for water to heat up and cool down.
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What are two properties of air masses?
Temperature and humidity
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Why are polar regions colder than other regions of Earth?
They receive less solar energy per unit of surface area.
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What is the cause of the Coriolis Effect?
Earth's Rotation
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Sea and Land breezes are caused because.....
the land heats and cools more quickly than the water
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Explain the main difference between weather and climate
Weather is the atmospheric condition over a short period of time and climate is over a long period of time (average weather pattern of 30years)
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What are two factors affecting climate?
Latitude, altitude and distance from the sea.
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How are continental cities different from coastal cities?
Coastal cities experience a smaller range of temperatures over the year.
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What are the 5 climate zones?
Tropical, temperate, and polar, continental, mild
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What is Ms. Denato's favorite animal?
Elephant