Weather Vocabulary
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Weather and Climate
By Oliver Smith
People who observe, study, and predict weather are known as meteorologists, and they use a wide range of tools and techniques to make predictions and forecasts. Climate, on the other hand, is the average weather in an area over long periods of time. Scientists are becoming increasingly interested understanding how climate is changing and how that affects the weather.
Storyboard Description
Weather vocabulary - includes a weather definition and a climate definition
Storyboard Text
- ANEMOMETER
- PRECIPITATION
- BEAUFORT SCALE
- An anemometer is a device used for measuring wind speed.
- Precipitation is water that falls from the sky to the ground, including rain, sleet, snow, and hail.
- The Beaufort Scale is a twelve-point scale that compares wind speed to observable conditions.
- CLIMATE
- Weather Vocabulary
- WEATHER
- Climate is the average weather trend over large areas and large amounts of time.
- Weather is the conditions of the atmosphere at a given point.
Image Attributions
- 2014-030 - trace precipitation - ** RCB ** - (License Attribution )
- And the wind is... - marcusrg - (License Attribution )
- California Drought Aid - December 2014 Rainstorm - encouragement - (License Attribution )
- Snow - dportnoy - (License Attribution )
- Windy - garryknight - (License Attribution )
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