1. By Maritza Moreno

2. What is temperature?

3. Temperature is a measure of the average heat or thermal energy of the particles in a substance.

5. One important weather element greatly misrepresented is the temperature. It seems that everyone has an outdoor thermometer somewhere in or around their home.

6. That thermometer, however, cannot and will not give accurate readings unless it is properly exposed to the elements.

7. Both very cold and very hot temperatures could be dangerous to your health.

9. There are basically two equivalent concepts of temperature, the thermodynamic concept and the statistical physics concept.

10. Temperature plays an important role in almost all fields of science, including physics, geology, chemistry, and biology.