Weather & Climate

The amount of water vapor in the air

• climate

• weather

• humidity

• temperature

How hot or cold something is

• temperature

• typical

• forecast

• humidity

Average weather condition of a region year (season)

• weather

• humidity

• typical

• climate

To predict

• humidty

• typical

• forecast

• temperature

pieces of information

• typical

• climate

• humidity

• data

describes the condition of the air outdoors such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, and rainfall

• humidity

• weather

• climate

• typical

usual, average

• forecast

• humidity

• climate

• typical

All weather is caused by

• wind speed

• rainfall

• the sun heating the Earth

• landfall

Precipitation is

• rain, sleet, snow, or hail

• only rain

• only snow, sleet or hail

• snow and rain

Climate and weather are different concepts, though they are related. How are the concepts of weather and climate different?

• Weather refers to conditions nearer to the ground than climate.

• Climate is related to the amount of sunlight; weather is not.

• Weather conditions include precipitation, but climate does not.

• Climate covers larger areas and longer times than weather.