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What is Weather?
• Weather describes the current conditions:
It is sunny today
It is windy outside
It is humid
It is cold
What is Climate?
patterns of weather conditions
within a large region
over a long period of time
Climate describes:
Decades Centuries, or even longer
Climate or Weather?Description Climate or Weather?
It is always warm near the equator
It is rainy outside today
Las Vegas is a Desert
The Rainforest is a very wet area
We are supposed to have cloud cover over the Oakville area tomorrow
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Climate or Weather?Description Climate or Weather?
We get snow every November to March
It is going to snow tomorrow
It is supposed to be warm this weekend
It is very humid outside
It was very windy yesterday
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Climate or Weather?Description Climate or Weather?
We get warm weather every summer in Canada
It is warm all year long in California
It is only going to be sunny for an hour today, then it will rain
The tropical rainforests are very moist places
We had record rainfall last week
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Graphic Organizers• Watch the following 2 video clips. Links at the end of the presentation
• Draw two mind maps: one about Weather and another about Climate
Weather
Climate Change
Over the past decade,scientists have observed
an increase in mean
world-wide temperature
•Climate change refers to:
–Changes in temperature
–Changes in precipitation
–Wind patterns
- Storm patterns
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/science/earth-sci/climate-weather-sci.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUiwtVSkUwQ