Weather Versus Climate

Would you think about the weather or the climate?

You are a professional soccer player and are thinking about your game tonight.

• Weather

• Climate

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Would you think about the weather or the climate?

You want to start a little garden outside. You want to buy some plants that are going to stay alive all year round.

• Weather

• Climate

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Would you think about the weather or the climate?

You are on the committee that gets to decide where the soccer World Cup will take place 8 years from now.

• Weather

• Climate

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Would you think about the weather or the climate?

Someone asks you why there are so many plants in the rain forest but there are so few plants in the desert.

• Weather

• Climate

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Climate is

• the condition of the atmosphere on any given day

• the long-term pattern of the atmosphere over a period of years

• both

• niether

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Deserts receive less than 10 inches of rainfall each year. This is a characteristic of ________________.

• climate

• weather

• both

• neither

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It is raining outside right now.

• weather

• climate

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The high temperature today will be near 75 degrees F.

• weather

• climate

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The meteorologist predicts that tomorrow, it will be very windy outside.

• weather

• climate

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Marco got a Christmas photo from his cousin in Hawaii. The family wore shorts, sandals, and Santa hats. Marco’s dad said that was normal clothing because the average temperature in Hawaii is 82 degrees Fahrenheit that time of the year.

• weather

• climate

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