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Weather and Climate
Weather and Climate
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A review of weather and climate.
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What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is over a period of years; climate changes daily.
Weather is today. Cimate is weather over several years.
2
The rivers have three parts:
Upper course, middle course, delta course.
Upper course, middle course, lower course.
3
Which of the following are meteorologists investigating to determine climate?
daily rainfall
average temperature over a long period of time
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Only 3% of all the water on Earth is salt water.
False
True
5
All of the following statements refer to weather except:
Humidity
Precipitation
Temperature
Latitude
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A tributary is...
A river that flows into another river.
A river that flows through a valley.
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Near its source, a river flows...
Quickly
Slowly
Wider
Narrower
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There are three main climate zones:
Hot, temperate and cold.
Hot, warm and cold.
Upper, middle and lower.
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The data in this chart would support conclusions about...
weather because it analyzes data day by day.
climate because it looks at data for October over 8 years.
10
A student measured the temperature and precipitation on a certain day. The student is measuring
drought
climate
weather
hurricane
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Which tool do we use to measure precipitation?
spring scale
rain gauge
triple beam balance
weather vane
12
Weather is...
the typical weather in a place over a long period of time.
the state of the atmosphere in a specific place at a specific time.
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This picture shows...
weather
none of the above
weather and climate
climate
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The hydrosphere is...
All the water on Earth.
All the solid water on Earth.
All the liquid water on Earth.
