Weather and Climate

Question 1

What is weather?

Answer 1

A Temporary behavior of atmosphere (what’s going on at a certain time)

Question 2

Where does weather occur?

Answer 2

Over a small geographic area and can change rapidly

Question 3

What is the study of weather?

Answer 3

Meteorolgy

Question 4

What is climate?

Answer 4

Long term behavior of atmosphere (100+ years)

Question 5

Where does climate occur?

Answer 5

Large Geographic area and very slow to change

Question 6

Where does polar weather occur?

Answer 6

90-60 degrees latitude from the equator

Question 7

Where does temperate weather occur?

Answer 7

60-30 degrees latitude from the equator

Question 8

What kind of weather does temperate suggest?

Answer 8

All seasons/Variety of Climate/Moderate Precipitation

Question 9

Where does tropical weather occur?

Answer 9

30-0 degrees latitude from the equator

Question 10

What kind of weather does tropical suggest?

Answer 10

No winter/Warm all the time/ Severe rainfall and humidity

Question 11

What can affect weather and climate?

Answer 11

The Sun
The Water Cycle
Gravity
The Ocean

Question 12

What are some ways that the sun affects weather?

Answer 12

Warms the land and ocean surfaces
The surfaces warms the atmosphere

Question 13

What is evaporation?
What is condensation?

Answer 13

Water going from a liquid to a gas (gains energy from the sun)
Water going from a gas to a liquid (cools or loses energy)

Question 14

What is transpiration?
What is precipitation?

Answer 14

Evaporation of water (From plants)
When water falls out of the atmosphere (Water Droplets become to heavy)

Question 15

How does the atmosphere affect weather?

Answer 15

The atmosphere is a mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth

Question 16

What is the first atmospheric layer?

Answer 16

Trophosphere

Question 17

What is the second?
What is the layer in between?
What is the third?

Answer 17

Stratosphere
Ozone Layer
Mesosphere

Question 18

What is the fourth?
What is the fifth?
What are they called together?

Answer 18

Ionosphere
Exosphere
Thermosphere

Question 19

What occurs in the Troposphere?

Answer 19

Earth and Clouds

Question 20

What is an air mass?

Answer 20

Body of air with a certain tempature and moisture level

Question 21

What is a front?

Answer 21

Where air masses meet

Question 22

What are the types of fronts?

Answer 22

Warm
Cold
Occluded
Stationary

Question 23

Falling Air Pressure:
Rising Air Pressure:
Steady Air Pressure:

Answer 23

Stormy Weather
Fair Weather
No Change

Question 24

How are winds created?

Answer 24

Differences In Air Pressure

Question 25

How is wind measured?

Answer 25

Wind Vanes Anemometers

Question 26

What are Global Winds?

Answer 26

Thousans of km long and can cause weather to move in different directions

Question 27

:Hot Tropical Air: :Cold Polar Region:

Answer 27

Causes air to rise Causes air to sink

Question 28

What is Coriolis Effect?

Answer 28

Causes winds to curve to the right and to the left depending on which hemisphere there in

Question 29

What is Relative Humidity?

Answer 29

Measure of the amount of moisture in the air compared to what the air could hold

Question 30

True or False: Warm air holds more moisture

Answer 30

True

Question 31

What is the dew point?

Answer 31

Tempature at which the air is saturated

Question 32

What can happen when dew point tempature is reached?

Answer 32

Above Freezing Water Vapor can condense Dew will form on surfaces Cloud Droplets will form

Question 33

How do rainbows form?

Answer 33

By sunshine on raindrops

Question 34

What does white light cause?

Answer 34

The colors to refract or bend