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Weather vs. Climate

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What is weather? How is weather different from climate? Factors such as temperature, thunderstorms, precipitation, and wind speed refer to weather. Climate consists of the overall patterns of weather in a particular region of the world, over a long period of time. This is the focus of a video that helps viewers distinguish between weather and climate.

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Concepts

weather changes, temperature, air temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, climates, rain, precipitation, snow, severe weather, thunderstorms, lightning, climate regions, climate change, the atmosphere, the earth's atmosphere, atmospheric conditions

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science

Instructional Ideas

After viewing, explore and discuss various climate regions around the world and the weather conditions they experience

Classroom Considerations

The 11th in a series of 22 videos that discuss Earth's spheres and natural resources
Concepts from the previous videos are reviewed at the beginning of the episode

This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

Designed for Next Generation Science Standards
Video presents a very clear distinction between weather and climate, which is easy to understand

Cons

None

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