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Weather vs. Climate
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This is where the energy that drives the water cycle comes from.
What is the sun?
100
This measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This measures the amount of rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
100
These clouds are very wispy and feathery looking.
What are cirrus clouds?
100
This describes the condition of the air outdoors such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, and rainfall.
What is weather?
200
This is the process when water changes from a liquid to a gas (or water vapor), caused by heat.
What is evaporation?
200
This measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
This measures the wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
These clouds are puffy and look like cotton balls.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
The average or typical weather conditions of a region year after year (at least a season).
What is climate?
300
The cooling of water in the atmosphere changing gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
This is used at airports to show the direction of the wind.
What is a wind sock?
300
This measures the weather conditions (temperature, air pressure, wind speed and direction) higher in the atmosphere.
What is a weather balloon?
300
These clouds are low and spread out like a blanket.
What are stratus clouds?
300
Weather or Climate: Today it is 57 degrees in Seattle, Washington.
Weather
400
Water droplets falling from the atmosphere in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
This shows the direction of the wind. It usually has a compass of some kind attached.
What is a wind vane?
400
This is able to photograph, track, and measure the conditions of large-scale air movements.
What is a weather satellite?
400
These clouds produce heavy thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
Weather or Climate? The average annual rainfall in the Sahara Desert is 2.5 cm.
Climate
500
The process by which plants lose water out of their leaves.
What is transpiration?
500
This measures the amount of humidity or water vapor in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
500
This is a scientist that studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
500
This is a mass of floating water droplets or ice crystals formed by condensation.
What is a cloud?
500
Weather or Climate? It snowed 2 inches in Gatlinburg, TN on January 13th, 2014.
Weather