Weather and Climate
What is a weather forecast?
What is the prediction of what the weather will be in the near future?
What is the sun?
What are four types of weather phenomena?
Describe Cumulus Clouds
Fluffy, look like cotton balls, very common in the sky.
What layer of the atmosphere does weather occur?
What is the Troposphere?
Explain the weather on your birthday month.
(Depends on students birthday month)
What is the last stage of the Water Cycle?
What is Collection?
Is fog precipitation?
What are Nimbus Clouds?
Black storm clouds, often bring thunderstorms, wind, rain and sometimes hail.
True or False: The Greenhouse Effect makes Earth cooler.
What is False?
What are some symbols you would find on a weather forecast?
True or False: Condensation comes after Evaporation.
What is False?
What is sleet?
Rain and snow mixed, snow that partially melts as it falls
Name the four types of clouds.
Stratus, Cirrus, Nimbus and Cumulus
Where would you be coolest outside?
In the shade
What is climate change?
Climate change is when there is a big difference in normal climate patterns over a long amount of time.
What are the three main aspects of the Water Cycle? (In order)
Condensation, Precipitation, Evaporation
How do you measure rain?
What are the high clouds?
Cirrus, Cirrostratus, Cirrocumulus
Winter jacket, toque, mitts, warm pants, etc.
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is the daily state of the atmosphere, or air, in any given place
Climate is the average of weather conditions in an area over a long period
Give a real-life example of Evaporation
What is steam from a kennel? (Accept any answer that is correct)
What are three types of extreme weather?
Tornados, Hurricanes, Flood, etc.
Come up and draw a picture of a cloud, and name the proper term.
(Depends on student response)
Huge masses of warm air move around the Earth all of the time. This is where they meet.