Weather and Climate

Which of these best describes climate rather than weather?

• Wind speed is changing as a storm moves through an area.

• The temperature is decreasing in a slow-moving cold front.

• Annual high temperatuers in the summer have increased over many decades.

• The rainfall during one year was greater than the rainfall during the next year.

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Each school year for 30 years, the amount of rain that fell at a school was measured and recorded. Tracking rainfall over a long period provides the most information about which characteristic of an area?

• Climate
• Temperature of one day
• Weather
• Type of soil

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Which statement below describes climate?

• It’s hot outside.

• It's normally warm outside.

• It’s raining outside.

• It’s cold and snowing outside.

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Temperatures in the Artic are usually below freezing year round.

• weather

• climate

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Winds are currently blowing from the North in Denver, Colorado.

• weather

• climate

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James grabbed a rain coat before catching the school bus. It was already cloudy and the TV news reported that there would be rain all day long in Houston.

• weather

• climate

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Sandra visited her grandma in Florida over Thanksgiving. She noticed that they were selling bathing suits at the stores. Her grandma said they sell bathing suits all year because Florida is warm.

• weather

• climate

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Which statement below describes a scientist studying weather?

• A scientist studied the average rainfall over a 30-year period.

• Using tree rings a scientist studied flooding over the last century.

• A scientist used 1000-year-old fossilized trees to study a hurricane 100 years ago.

• A scientist used 100-year-old tree to study the average rainfall over the last 40 years.

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Scientist are studying water levels of a lake for 30 years. What are they studying?

• Climate, because they are measuring over a long period of time

• Climate, because they are measuring the rainfall

• Weather, because they expect rainfall to continue

• Weather, because they are tracking changes to the environment

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Meteorologists forecast this.

• Climate
• Weather

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