Weather is the condition (situation) of the atmosphere (air) outside at a specific moment
The two main factors that weather describes are temperature and precipitation
Weather can change daily or even hourly
Climate is a description of the type of weather that keeps repeating in one area
The Earth has different climate zones (also called biomes).
These are large areas where the precipitation and temperature is the same as well as the type of plants and animals
¡ The SIX climate zones (biomes)
¡ Tundra
¡ Taiga
¡ Temperate Deciduous Forest
¡ Grassland
¡ Desert
¡ Tropical Rainforest
¡ The Tundra
¡ Has no trees
¡ Ground is permanently frozen
¡ Coldest environment
¡ Receives less than 10 inches of precipitation a year
¡ The Taiga
¡ Receives between 10-30 inches of precipitation a year
¡ Main trees are those that are evergreen and that create cones
¡ Cold environment
¡ Temperate Deciduous Forest
¡ Receives plenty of rain spread throughout the year
¡ This is where we live
¡ Has four seasons
¡ Cold winters and warm summers
¡ Grassland
¡ The most common plant is grass
¡ Gets between 20-40 inches of rain per year
¡ Desert
¡ Less than 10 inches of rain per year
¡ Soil is rocky and poor
¡ Temperature is very hot during the day and cool at night
¡ Tropical Rainforest
¡ Gets 100-160 inches of rain per year
¡ No seasons, always warm (around 80 degrees)
¡ Trees are the dominant plant
WHY ARE THERE DIFFERENT CLIMATE ZONES?
All places on Earth do not get an equal amount of sunlight. Places that get direct sunlight (at the Equator) are hotter than places that do not get direct sunlight.
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Science Vocabulary Words
1) Compare: To tell how two things are the same
2) Contrast: To tell how two things are different
3) Observe: To watch or study carefully
4) Locate: To find
5) Effect: The result of something
6) Data: A collection of information
7) Region: A large area of land
8) Predict: To guess what is going to happen in the future
9) Elevation: How high something is
10) Meteorologist: Someone that studies the weather (or atmosphere)
11) Climate: Repeated weather patterns
12) Conditions: The current situation
13) Current: Events that are going on RIGHT NOW
14) Precipitation: Water that falls from the sky
15) Characteristics: Terms that describe someone or something
16) Altitude: How high something is
17) Local: Your surroundings
18) Aquatic: Having to do with water
19) Terrestrial: Having to do with land or Earth
20) Uneven: Unequal, unbalanced, not even
21) Degree: A number that tells a unit of measurement. In this case a degree is the number that tells your specific latitude on a map.
22) Latitude: A line on a map that tells your location north or south of the Equator
23) Factor: Something that causes an effect or change
24) Surface: The outside layer
25) Strike: To hit
26) Solar: Related to the Sun
27) Addition: To add
28) Hemisphere: Half of a sphere
29) Maximum: The most possible
30) Minimum: The least possible
31) Trend: Following a general course
32) Pattern: Something that repeats
33) Orbit: To circle around another object
34) Revolution: The path around another object
35) Experience: Something you go through
36) Waning: When the lit side of the moon is getting smaller
37) Waxing: When the lit side of the moon is getting larger
38) Gibbous: Almost a full moon (it can be waxing or waning)
39) Lunar: Moon
40) Solstice: When one hemisphere is receiving the maximum solar rays and the other hemisphere is receiving the minimum
41) Equinox: When both hemispheres are receiving the same amount of solar rays
42) Penumbra: The lighter part of the shadow in an eclipse
43) Umbra: The darkest shadow in an eclipse
2) Contrast: To tell how two things are different
3) Observe: To watch or study carefully
4) Locate: To find
5) Effect: The result of something
6) Data: A collection of information
7) Region: A large area of land
8) Predict: To guess what is going to happen in the future
9) Elevation: How high something is
10) Meteorologist: Someone that studies the weather (or atmosphere)
11) Climate: Repeated weather patterns
12) Conditions: The current situation
13) Current: Events that are going on RIGHT NOW
14) Precipitation: Water that falls from the sky
15) Characteristics: Terms that describe someone or something
16) Altitude: How high something is
17) Local: Your surroundings
18) Aquatic: Having to do with water
19) Terrestrial: Having to do with land or Earth
20) Uneven: Unequal, unbalanced, not even
21) Degree: A number that tells a unit of measurement. In this case a degree is the number that tells your specific latitude on a map.
22) Latitude: A line on a map that tells your location north or south of the Equator
23) Factor: Something that causes an effect or change
24) Surface: The outside layer
25) Strike: To hit
26) Solar: Related to the Sun
27) Addition: To add
28) Hemisphere: Half of a sphere
29) Maximum: The most possible
30) Minimum: The least possible
31) Trend: Following a general course
32) Pattern: Something that repeats
33) Orbit: To circle around another object
34) Revolution: The path around another object
35) Experience: Something you go through
36) Waning: When the lit side of the moon is getting smaller
37) Waxing: When the lit side of the moon is getting larger
38) Gibbous: Almost a full moon (it can be waxing or waning)
39) Lunar: Moon
40) Solstice: When one hemisphere is receiving the maximum solar rays and the other hemisphere is receiving the minimum
41) Equinox: When both hemispheres are receiving the same amount of solar rays
42) Penumbra: The lighter part of the shadow in an eclipse
43) Umbra: The darkest shadow in an eclipse
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