Determine Meaning: Climate and Weather 2
Weather
by Alecia Strohl
"Weather" and "climate" are two words used to describe outdoor conditions. While both involve the environment outside, they are actually quite different. Weather constantly changes. It is the minute-by-minute change in the air, or atmosphere, in a given area. Climate takes hundreds to millions of years to change. It is a predictable pattern of weather in a given area.
Weather can change multiple times in a day. Words like sunny, windy, rainy, and snowy are words used to describe weather. Weather is not the same in all places at any given time; it can be raining on one side of a town and sunny in another. It can also change multiple times in one day. For instance, it can be snowy one morning, become sunny that afternoon, and then rainy that night.
Many factors affect the weather, including temperature, or measure of heat in the air, and humidity, the amount of water vapor in the air. The direction and speed of wind also contribute to weather and can play major roles in severe weather situations. Atmospheric pressure, or the weight of the air, and visibility, the clarity of the air, are also factors affecting weather. While weather and weather and climate describe the outside environment, they are not the same. Weather is the condition of the air or atmosphere at a given time while climate is the weather patterns of a particular place over time. Weather continuously changes, while climate is predictable.
Question 1
According to the text, which words are used to describe weather?
Responses
A hot, cold, humidhot, cold, humid
B windy, sunny, rainywindy, sunny, rainy
C arid, humid, tropicalarid, humid, tropical
D pressure, air, visibilitypressure, air, visibility
Question 2
Which phrase best describes the meaning of air visibility?
Responses
A clarity of the airclarity of the air
B amount of water vapor in the airamount of water vapor in the air
C weight of the airweight of the air
D measure of heat in the air
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For Question 2, the answer is A: clarity of the air.
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