Weather and Climate

What is going on with the atmosphere at any particular time.

• Weather
• Climate

Determines the type of animals that can live there.

• Weather
• Climate

Average weather conditions of a region year after year

• weather
• season
• cold front
• climate

The amount of water vapor in the air-

• humidity

• climate

• generalization

Which best describes climate?

• Summers are usually hot and dry.

• It rained last week.

• Yesterday it was cold and windy.

What is weather?

• Weather is the condition of air ,temperature , wind air pressure , rainfall and humidity in the atmosphere at a given place and time.

• Weather is conditions of seasons that prevail for a long time.

Places located on or near the Equator receive the direct _________________ of the Sun.

The closer a place to poles the ___________ is it's climate, the closer a place to the Equator ___________________ is it's climate.

• Hotter , Colder

• Temperate , Temperate

• Colder , Hotter

• Temperate , Hotter

The atmospheric condition at a given place and time is called ______________________.

• Weather

• Altitude

• Climate

• Winds

Scientists who study weather are called __________________.

• botanist

• agronomist

• astronomer

• Meteorologists