Weather and Climate

What is weather?

• What it is like outside at a certain time and place.

• Sunny and hot.

• The temperature and precipitation over a LONG period of time.

If we describe the air feeling cold or hot, we use the word:

• Weather

• Temperature

• Climate

Polar bears only live where the weather is:

• cold

• sunny

• hot

Wet weather is good for frogs because:

• it is hot.

• it is wet.

• it keeps their skin from getting too dry.

Climate means:

• the weather a place has over a LONG period of time.

• the amount of precipitation in a place.

• the temperature in a place.

A region is an area that shares something:

• because it is nice to share.

• alike.

• different.

Nebraska is in a ____________ climate region.

• cold

• hot

• hot and wet

Weather changes _____________________.

• yearly.

• weekly.

• everyday.

Tornados and hurricanes are both types of ______________.

• storms.

• weather.

• wind.

When it rains I might carry an _____________________.

• newspaper to over my head.

• umbrella.

• coat.