1. Weather

2. Climate is temperature measured over a long period of time while weather is temperature measured at one precise moment.

3. Our atmosphere absorbs the radiation from the sun, heating the earth.

4. Weather describes the atmospheric conditions at a specific place at a specific point in time.

5. Climate is the average pattern for weather over a period of months, years, decades, or longer in a specific place.

6. Weather is the effect of the conditions of the atmosphere at a particular time and place.

7. Earth has a layered atmosphere, and weather takes place in the troposphere layer.

8. The properties of the atmosphere, such as pressure and temperature, change as elevation changes.

9. The difference in heating of the Earth's surface produces weather patterns.

10. The sun is the major source of energy for events on the surface of the earth including wind, ocean currents, and waves.

11. A person who studies the atmosphere and forecasting the weather is a meteorologist

12. Meteorologists use many weather instruments.
Barometer measures Air Pressure.

13. Meteorologists use many weather instruments.
Thermometer measures Temperature/Heat.

14. Meteorologists use many weather instruments.
Anemometer measures Wind Speed.

15. Meteorologists use many weather instruments.
Wind Socks and Wind Vanes measures wind direction.

16. Meteorologists use many weather instruments.
Psychrometer measures Relative Humidity.

17. Meteorologists use many weather instruments.
Hygrometer measures Humidity.

18. Rain Gauge Simple instrument that measures the amount of rain.
Any open container with a measurement scale on its side is good.

19. High pressure is a condition of the atmosphere in which the air pressure is above average.

20. Low pressure is a condition of the atmosphere in which the air pressure is below average.

21. What measures air temperature?

22. What measures air temperature?
Thermometer

23. What measures precipitation?

24. What measures precipitation?
Rain Gauge

25. What measures wind direction?

26. What measures wind direction?
Wind Vane and Wind Sock

27. What measures wind speed?

28. What measures wind speed?
Anemometer

29. What measures air pressure?

30. What measures air pressure?
Barometer

31. What measures humidity?
Hygrometer

32. What measures humidity?

33. What measures relative humidity?
Psychrometers