Separate Weather from Climate Descriptions - Practice 1

Weather describes conditions over a short time.

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Weather describes conditions over a short time. Climate describes patterns over many years. One unusually wet day does not establish the long-term pattern. All example reports below are fictional.

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Rain at noon describes weather. The pattern of winter rainfall over 30 years describes climate.

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Two places can have the same straight-line separation but very different travel distances because roads and paths take different routes.

Question 1 Report: it is raining now. weather climate pattern map scale

Question 2 Report: summers were usually dry across 30 years. one moment of weather map key climate pattern

Question 3 Report: wind reached 15 km/h this morning. landform weather climate pattern

Question 4 Report: winter averages over 30 years are colder than summer averages. climate pattern one moment of weather map symbol

Question 5 Report: the temperature at noon is 18 C. climate pattern longitude weather

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