6th Chp 3.1 Weather and Climate

What type of weather is a tornado?

• severe weather
• not severe weather

What kind of weather is a hurricane?

• severe weather
• not severe weather

What kind of weather is a thunderstorm?

• severe weather
• not severe weather

Climate is ______.

• what the air is like outside
• the temperature of a day
• pattern of weather in a place over many years.

Weather is ______.

• what air is like outside
• pattern of weather in a place over many years.
• the evaporation of water

The average yearly weather pattern over many years.

• weather
• air pressure
• climate
• zone

_______ affects weather because the further north or south you go from the Equator, the less solar energy (heat).

• altitude
• latitude
• sunlight
• atmosphere

Earth is unevenly heated due to its?

• oceans and moon
• tilt and shape
• gravity and clouds
• climate and weather

The boundary between two air masses that meet is called?

• front
• back
• side
• air mass

Weather and climate are the same thing

• true

• false