WEATHER AND CLIMATE

1.Weather is the state of the ..... at any particular time and place.

2. Weather describes the condition of the ....... from day to day or week to week,

3. The climate is the ........of a place averaged over a longer period of time, often 30 years.

4.Conditions of ...... may be clear, cloudy, fair, rainy, humid, cold, windy, etc.

5.The type of weather that exists depends on what kind of air masses are moving above. Therefore, daily changes in the weather are due to winds and storms.

6. Seasonal changes are due to the revolving of Earth around the ......

7. Different places in the world have different kinds of weather for extended time periods. These differences make weather ...... called climates.

8.Climate is not the same as weather, but rather, it is the average pattern of weather for a particular region. Climate information includes the statistical weather information that tells us about the normal weather, as well as the range of weather extremes for a location. Climates vary according to their .......and ..... and also are affected by the same factors as weather, but may be thought of as localized. For the most part climate zones circle the earth in belts. 

9.Scientists have identified ......different climates on Earth. They are named either for the region where they occur or for the weather found there.

10.The ........... of Earth are the areas near the North Pole and the South Pole. They have two extremely cold climates, called ice caps and tundra.

11.The regions near the equator are warm and tropical. They have .......... separate climates, known as monsoon, wet, and savannah/grasslands.

12.The subtropical regions are between the tropical regions and the polar regions. They have ........ different climates, these are called dry summer, dry winter, humid, marine west coast, Mediterranean, and wet.

13. Scientists around the world are still trying to solve the puzzle of climate change by working with satellites and other tools and computer models that simulate and predict the Earth's conditions.