Climate Versus Weather

Would you think about the weather or the climate?

You want to know if you should have your birthday party outside next Saturday.

• Weather

• Climate

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Would you think about the weather or the climate?

You are deciding where to attend college. You don’t like really cold temperatures.

• Weather

• Climate

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Would you think about the weather or the climate?

You have decided to plan out what you’re going to wear each day this week.

• 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?

What a crazy day! When you woke up it was nice and sunny outside, around noon it started getting a little cloudy and now there’s a full out thunderstorm out there!

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

• climate

• weather

• both

• neither

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Latitude, altitude, topography, distance from water, wind, human activity

• weather

• climate

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Tropical, Arid, Temperate, Continental, Polar

• weather

• climate

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