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CLIMATOLOGY Flashcards

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Describe Weather

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Weather is today; and is what condition of the atmosphere are over a short period of time or specific moment; Weather is a specific event, ex. thunderstorm, a snowstorm

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Describe climate

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Climate is always; and is how the atmosphere behaves over long periods of time

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Is it normal or not when Namibia have a warm winter one year and the next colder?

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This kind of change is normal.

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What do you call it when the average weather pattern over many years changes

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Climate change

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5
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What is the climate in one are called like in the midwest of Hawaii

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Regional climate

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What does temperature tell us

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How hot or how cold something is

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What do you use to measure temperature

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Thermometer

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What is the atmosphere

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The layer of gases that surrounds the Earth

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9
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Into what is the atmosphere divided

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Layers

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10
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Name the layers of the atmosphere

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troposphere
stratosphere
mesosphere
thermosphere
exosphere
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What is different in each layer of the atmoshpere

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thickness
temperature
composition

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12
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Give examples of weather

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thunderstorm

snowstorm

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What is the difference between weather and climate

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Weather is a specific event or condition that happens over a period of hours or days
Climate refers to average weather conditions in a place over many years

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14
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In which layer of the atmosphere does weather occur

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Troposphere

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15
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Climate is how the atmosphere………..

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behaves

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16
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Weather is the condition of?

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the atmosphere over a short period of time or specific moment

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17
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What is Biometeorology

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It is the study of how weather and climate influesces plants, animals and humans

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18
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What is a climograph

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It is a single graph that charts both the average temperature and precipitation of a given location through the course of the year using separate axes for each variable.

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What does the line graph represents

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temperature

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What does the bar chart represent

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presipitation

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What does the horizontal axis represent

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months of the year

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What does a climograph show

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It shows average temperatures for each month and also illustrates seasonal variations in temperature over the course of the year

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What does the climograph reveal

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monthly precipitation and seasonal variations in precipitation

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In what does climate play a huge role and what is directly influenced

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in what human activities can and cannot occur example farming types

25
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name 6 weather elements

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Temperature
Wind
Precipitation
Air pressure
Relative humidity
clouds
26
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name 6 weather elements

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Temperature
Wind speed
Precipitation (rainfall/snowfall)
Air pressure
humidity
cloud cover
27
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what is the definition for wind

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Movement of air from high to low pressure area

28
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what is the definition for precipitation / rainfall

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Water that falls to from atmosphere to surface

29
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What is the definition for air pressure

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Force exerted on earth’s surface due to air

30
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What is the definition for relative humidity

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Amount of water vapor in the air

31
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What is the definition for clouds

A

Evaporated water vapor in air

32
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Name the measuring instrument for Temperature

A

Thermometer

33
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Name the measuring instrument for Wind

A

Anemometer

Wind vane/rose

34
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Name the measuring instrument for Precipitation/Rainfall

A

Rain Gauge

35
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Name the measuring instrument for Air pressure

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Barometer

36
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Name the measuring instrument for Relative humidity

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hygrometer
Sling psychrometer
wet and dry bulb

37
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Name the measuring instrument for clouds

A

there is none

38
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In which Unit is temperature measured

A

degrees Celsius

39
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In which unit is humidity measured

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percentage

40
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In which unit is rain/precipitation measured

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millimetres

41
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In which unit is wind measured

A

km/h

kilometre per hour

42
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In which unit is atmospheric pressure measured

A

hectopascals

hPa

43
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What is evaporation

A

When a liquid turn into a gas or vapor we call this evaporation

44
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What process is evaporation

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It is a cooling process

45
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What is condensation

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The process in which water vapor turns into liquid

46
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What is the water in the air called

A

a gas known as water vapor

47
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What is dew Dew Point

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temperature to which air must cool for condensation to occur

48
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What is saturation

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It is the condition where the air is completely full of water vapor

49
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What is the difference between evaporation and condensation

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In condensation the water cools and falls to the ground. And in evaporation the water is heated and then tuns into water vapor

50
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What is the difference between dew point and saturation

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Dew Point: the temperature must cool before condensation happen. And Saturation is when the air is filled with water vapor

51
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How does frost occur

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Frost occurs when water vapor turns directly into ice crystals on objects near to the ground

52
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How can frost damage many kinds of plants

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The fluid inside plant cells expands as they freeze. This cause the cell walls to break.
Frost is tiny bits of ice that fall on a plant and damage the stem or the plant can freeze and die.

53
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Name the PROCESS where liquid changes into a gas

A

Evaporation

54
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Why does the Sahara Desert have very little evaporation

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Because there is very little water

55
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When does dew and frost form

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There have to be enough water vapor and low temparatures

56
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What prevent dew and frost to form

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Clouds and a change in air pressure

57
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What is the water cycle

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The water cycle is a pattern of changes in the form of water

58
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Describe the water cycle

A

water evaporates from the surface of the earth
rises into the atmosphere
cools and condenses into rain or snow in clouds
falls again to the surface as precipitation/rainfall

59
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Clouds in the atmosphere forms because

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the water vapor freezes

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