Weather and Climate

What is the difference between Weather and Climate

• Weather happens now, Climate happens over time

• Climate happens now, Weather happens over time

• Weather happens now, Climate happens now

• None of these

What does this symbol on a weather map indicate? 

• High pressure system
• Low pressure system
• Cold front
• Warm front

Which of these best describes climate rather than weather?

• Wind speed is changing as a storm moves through an area.

• The temperature is decreasing in a slow-moving cold front.

• Annual high temperatuers in the summer have increased over many decades.

• The rainfall during one year was greater than the rainfall during the next year.

Each school year for 30 years, the amount of rain that fell at a school was measured and recorded. Tracking rainfall over a long period provides the most information about which characteristic of an area?

• Climate
• Temperature of one day
• Weather
• Type of soil

Which statement below describes climate?

• It’s hot outside.

• It's normally warm outside.

• It’s raining outside.

• It’s cold and snowing outside.

Temperatures in the Artic are usually below freezing year round.

• weather

• climate

Which statement below describes a scientist studying weather?

• A scientist studied the average rainfall over a 30-year period.

• Using tree rings a scientist studied flooding over the last century.

• A scientist used 1000-year-old fossilized trees to study a hurricane 100 years ago.

• A scientist used 100-year-old tree to study the average rainfall over the last 40 years.

Scientist are studying water levels of a lake for 30 years. What are they studying?

• Climate, because they are measuring over a long period of time

• Climate, because they are measuring the rainfall

• Weather, because they expect rainfall to continue

• Weather, because they are tracking changes to the environment

Meteorologists forecast this.

• Climate
• Weather

The temperature is currently 3°.

• climate

• weather

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