Weather and Climate Vocabulary

What is climate?

• The average conditions in a place over a longer period of time.

• The average conditions in a place over a short period of time.

• The daily environmental conditions we experience around us

• The temperature in a place over a seven day period.

water vapor in the air

• precipitation
• humidity
• atmosphere
• weather

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Weather is defined as -

• The yearly average condition of the air outdoors, such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, and rainfall.

• The current condition of the air outdoors, such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, and rainfall

• The boundary where a warm air mass replaces a cold air mass

• A statement about what you think will happen based on what you know.

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Scientist collect pieces of information called -

• warm front

• data

• humidity

• thermometer

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The boundary where a cold air mass replaces a warm air mass is called -

• warm front

• weather front

• forcast

• cold front

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the air that surrounds the earth

• equator
• humidity
• temperature
• atmosphere

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What is precipitation?

• The current condition of the air outdoors, such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, and rainfall

• The amount of water vapor in the air

• Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from the sky

• How hot or cold something is

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If you want to know how much it rained last night, you would use a ______________ to measure the amount of rainfall.

• rain guage

• wind vane

• thermometer

• anemometer

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An instrument for measuring the speed of the wind

• barometer

• thermometer

• anemometer

• rain gauge

"The wind is blowing from the south" is an example of ______________.

• wind vane

• wind speed

• wind direction

• wind chill

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