Climate and Weather

Identify ALL of the listed factors that influence weather.

• Air Temperature

• Wind Speed

• How close you live to water

• Elevation

• Precipitation

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As altitude increases, temperature and air pressure ___________________ .

• increase

• decrease

• stay the same

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There are swamps in the Everglades of Florida. In Arizona, there are deserts. These two environments can have high temperatures in the summer. How would the weather in a swamp in the Everglades most likely differ from the weather in Arizona?

• The swamp would have higher humidity.

• The swamp would have hotter winds.

• The swamp would have more snowfall.

• The swamp would have less precipitation.

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What kind of weather would you most likely see at the top of a mountain?

• cooler and drier

• wetter and cooler

• stormy and hot

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Long-term weather patterns or conditions in a given place is called?

• Weather

• Seasons

• Temperature

• Climate

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Earth has three main climate zones: tropical, temperate, and polar. These zones can be further divided into smaller zones, with its own specific climate. Which continents are in the POLAR climate zone?

• Antartica and Alaska

• Europe and Asia

• Jamaica and Cuba

• Australia and Florida

______________ is defined as the distance from the equator.

• Latitude

• Heat

• Temperature

• Elevation

There are three main climate zones. They are the ________________, ____________________, and ________________ climate zones.

• tropic, desert, and polar

• temperate, tropic, and equator

• tropical, temperate, and polar

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What are areas of land that receive very little rainfall during the year called?

• swamp

• mountains

• desert

• beaches

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Deserts in the temperate zones can be extremely hot in the afternoon and below freezing at night. Which answer best explains why this happens?

• Temperate deserts are found at high elevations, where the Sun and the wind are much stronger. This creates more extreme temperature changes.

• Temperate deserts lack trees and grass. With no trees, the Sun shines directly down and causes it to get hot in the day, and with no grass, the heat escapes at night.

• Temperate deserts have very little cloud cover and no humidity. This means that more energy from the Sun reaches the desert in the day, but that heat can escape quickly at night.

• Temperate deserts have higher rainfall than other kinds of deserts. Warm rain during the day produces warm breezes in the desert. Cooler rains at night draw warm air away from the desert.

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