Guided Notes: Weather/Climate

Multiple Choice

Why is understanding heat transfer important for studying weather and climate?

• Because it helps explain how energy moves in the atmosphere

• Because it determines the color of the sky

• Because it affects the taste of water

• Because it controls the growth of plants

Open Ended

What do you think is the difference between weather and climate?

Open Ended

Explain using weather and climate why the statement 'It's snowing and it's April. Climate change and global warming are such lies.' is not supported based on their observations of that day.

Open Ended

What are ways to influence temperature?

Open Ended

What are the factors that affect the climate?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a type of energy transfer that shapes weather and climate?

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Evaporation

Multiple Choice

Why is the Equator warmest?

• Because it is closest to the sun.
• Because it receives the most direct sunlight
• Because no clouds form here.
• Because it is far from the sun

Multiple Choice

Solar radiation is the most indirect near the ___________.

• equator

• poles

Fill in the Blanks

Fill in the blank: Convection occurs when

air rises and cooler air sinks, creating vertical movement in the atmosphere.

Multiple Choice

Warm air rises above cooler air. This is an example of

• conduction

• condensation

• radiation

• convection

Multiple Select

Cold air is ___ dense and ___.

• more

• less

• sinks

• rises

Fill in the Blanks

The sun warms land faster than water, causing warm air to rise and cool ocean air to move in, resulting in a

breeze.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a direct result of uneven solar radiation on Earth?

• Formation of convection cells that drive global winds

• Increase in ocean salinity

• Decrease in atmospheric pressure everywhere

• Uniform temperature across the globe

Multiple Choice

We can define weather as

• The typical precipitation of a region for a long period of time

• What the atmosphere is like (temperature, precipitation, wind, etc.) at a specific place and at a specific time.

• The temperature that we have outside.

• The hour that the clock shows

Multiple Choice

The climate is...

• The typical weather in a specific place over a long period of time.

• today´s weather

Open Ended

What is one question you still have about how heat transfer affects weather and climate?