Climate and Weather

What is weather?

• The conditions of the atmosphere at a certain time and place

• The movement of water into the air

• The usual weather conditions over an extended amount of time.

Which are examples of weather?

• Troposphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere

• Rain, Sleet, Snow, Cloudy, Sunny

When water changes from a liquid to a gas

• atmosphere

• evaporation

• condensation

Precipitation is when water falls to the Earth in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

• True

• False

Cold fronts often bring in______.

• thunderstorms

• sunny days

• water cycles

________________ is the study of weather.

• Zoology

• Weatherology

• Meteorology

Which of the following gases DOES NOT trap heat?

• carbon dioxide
• nitrogen
• water vapor
• methane

Which of the following have been linked to climate change?  

• droughts
• flooding
• melting of polar ice caps
• all of the above

The warming of the atmosphere by the trapping of heat being radiated to space is called

• evaporation
• condensation
• the greenhouse effect
• radiation

The condition of the atmosphere, such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed and rainfall

• climate
• weather
• trend
• season