5th Grade Science Review

What is climate?

• The average conditions in a place over a longer period of time.

• The average conditions in a place over a short period of time.

• The daily environmental conditions we experience around us

• The temperature in a place over a seven day period.

Weather is defined as -

• The yearly average condition of the air outdoors, such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, and rainfall.

• The current condition of the air outdoors, such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, and rainfall

• The boundary where a warm air mass replaces a cold air mass

• A statement about what you think will happen based on what you know.

What is precipitation?

• The current condition of the air outdoors, such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, and rainfall

• The amount of water vapor in the air

• Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from the sky

• How hot or cold something is

If you want to know how much it rained last night, you would use a ______________ to measure the amount of rainfall.

• rain guage

• wind vane

• thermometer

• anemometer

An instrument for measuring the speed of the wind

• barometer

• thermometer

• anemometer

• rain gauge

A _____________________ will tell us what direction the wind is blowing.

• wind vane

• wind guage

• wind sock

• wind ruler

An instrument used to measure how hot or cold something is

• barometer
• thermometer
• wind sock
• rain guage

Average weather conditions of a region year after year

• weather
• season
• cold front
• climate

What is the name of the job that tells the weather?

• meteorologist
• weather man
• weather person

Which type of climate is hot and humid?

• tropical

• temperate

• desert

• polar