Weather and Climate

What is climate?

• The wind speed

• Average, year after year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds and clouds

• How much rain in a week.

• The temperature outside

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

What is a hurricane?

• A violent disturbance in the atmosphere

• A long lasting storm that begins over warm surfaces and has winds of 119 km per hour or higher

• Average rain in a year

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which type of cloud is a funnel-shaped cloud that touches Earth's surface?

• microburst

• down draft

• hurricane

• tornado

A force applied by the weight of air

• cold front

• barometer

• air pressure

• humidity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

The amount of water vapor in the air.

• warm front

• humidity

• precipitation

• air pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from the clouds in the sky.

• humidity

• liquid

• precipitation

• weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Average weather conditions of a region year after year

• weather

• cold fron

• season

• climate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which of these can be used to describe the condition of the atmosphere

• temperature

• wind speed

• cloud cover

• all of these

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What cause winds to form on Earth?

• solar energy

• elevation differences

• ocean currents

• uneven heating of the Earth by the sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which statement is the most accurate about cold air?

• Warm air rises because it is denser.

• Warm air sinks because it is denser.

• Cold air rises because it is denser.

• Cold air sinks because it is denser.