Climate and Climate Change

The climate of a region or city is its average ______.

• rainfall

• temperature

• weather

• climate

So climate change is a change in the average _______of a region or city.

• rainfall

• temperature

• weather

• climate

Climate change is also a change in Earth's overall ______.

• climate

• temperature

• weather

• rainfall

Weather is the ________ changes we see in temperature, clouds, rain or snow, wetness in the air and wind.

• short-term

• long-term

• average

• slight

The climate of an area is its weather averaged over many years.

• True

• False

The climate of an area is its weather averaged over one year.

• True

• False

​Earth's climate is always _____.

• the same.

• changing.

• hot

• cold

Studies show that Earth's climate has been getting ______.

• colder

• warmer

• wetter

• drier

The earth's average temperature has risen a little more than ___degree Fahrenheit during the past 100 years or so.

• 1

• 10

• 20

• 5

Climate models expect that Earth's average temperature will ______over the next 100 years or so.

• stay the same.

• keep rising

• get much colder

• get much wetter