CLIMATOLOGY

Question 1

Describe Weather

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Describe climate

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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

Answer 3

This kind of change is normal.

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Climate change

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Regional climate

Question 6

What does temperature tell us

Answer 6

How hot or how cold something is

Question 7

What do you use to measure temperature

Answer 7

Thermometer

Question 8

What is the atmosphere

Answer 8

The layer of gases that surrounds the Earth

Question 9

Into what is the atmosphere divided

Answer 9

Layers

Question 10

Name the layers of the atmosphere

Answer 10

troposphere
stratosphere
mesosphere
thermosphere
exosphere

Question 11

What is different in each layer of the atmoshpere

Answer 11

thickness
temperature
composition

Question 12

Give examples of weather

Answer 12

thunderstorm

snowstorm

Question 13

What is the difference between weather and climate

Answer 13

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

Question 14

In which layer of the atmosphere does weather occur

Answer 14

Troposphere

Question 15

Climate is how the atmosphere………..

Answer 15

behaves

Question 16

Weather is the condition of?

Answer 16

the atmosphere over a short period of time or specific moment

Question 17

What is Biometeorology

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What is a climograph

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

What does the line graph represents

Answer 19

temperature

Question 20

What does the bar chart represent

Answer 20

presipitation

Question 21

What does the horizontal axis represent

Answer 21

months of the year

Question 22

What does a climograph show

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What does the climograph reveal

Answer 23

monthly precipitation and seasonal variations in precipitation

Question 24

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

Answer 24

in what human activities can and cannot occur example farming types

Question 25

name 6 weather elements

Answer 25

``` Temperature Wind Precipitation Air pressure Relative humidity clouds ```

Question 26

name 6 weather elements

Answer 26

``` Temperature Wind speed Precipitation (rainfall/snowfall) Air pressure humidity cloud cover ```

Question 27

what is the definition for wind

Answer 27

Movement of air from high to low pressure area

Question 28

what is the definition for precipitation / rainfall

Answer 28

Water that falls to from atmosphere to surface

Question 29

What is the definition for air pressure

Answer 29

Force exerted on earth's surface due to air

Question 30

What is the definition for relative humidity

Answer 30

Amount of water vapor in the air

Question 31

What is the definition for clouds

Answer 31

Evaporated water vapor in air

Question 32

Name the measuring instrument for Temperature

Answer 32

Thermometer

Question 33

Name the measuring instrument for Wind

Answer 33

Anemometer | Wind vane/rose

Question 34

Name the measuring instrument for Precipitation/Rainfall

Answer 34

Rain Gauge

Question 35

Name the measuring instrument for Air pressure

Answer 35

Barometer

Question 36

Name the measuring instrument for Relative humidity

Answer 36

hygrometer Sling psychrometer wet and dry bulb

Question 37

Name the measuring instrument for clouds

Answer 37

there is none

Question 38

In which Unit is temperature measured

Answer 38

degrees Celsius

Question 39

In which unit is humidity measured

Answer 39

percentage

Question 40

In which unit is rain/precipitation measured

Answer 40

millimetres

Question 41

In which unit is wind measured

Answer 41

km/h | kilometre per hour

Question 42

In which unit is atmospheric pressure measured

Answer 42

hectopascals | hPa

Question 43

What is evaporation

Answer 43

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

Question 44

What process is evaporation

Answer 44

It is a cooling process

Question 45

What is condensation

Answer 45

The process in which water vapor turns into liquid

Question 46

What is the water in the air called

Answer 46

a gas known as water vapor

Question 47

What is dew Dew Point

Answer 47

temperature to which air must cool for condensation to occur

Question 48

What is saturation

Answer 48

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

Question 49

What is the difference between evaporation and condensation

Answer 49

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

Question 50

What is the difference between dew point and saturation

Answer 50

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

Question 51

How does frost occur

Answer 51

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

Question 52

How can frost damage many kinds of plants

Answer 52

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.

Question 53

Name the PROCESS where liquid changes into a gas

Answer 53

Evaporation

Question 54

Why does the Sahara Desert have very little evaporation

Answer 54

Because there is very little water

Question 55

When does dew and frost form

Answer 55

There have to be enough water vapor and low temparatures

Question 56

What prevent dew and frost to form

Answer 56

Clouds and a change in air pressure

Question 57

What is the water cycle

Answer 57

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

Question 58

Describe the water cycle

Answer 58

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

Question 59

Clouds in the atmosphere forms because

Answer 59

the water vapor freezes