Test: Weather and Climate- 1

• Environmental changes include various factors, such as natural disasters, human interferences, or animal interaction.
• Environmental change encompasses not only physical changes, but also factors like an infestation of invasive species.

• The rain gauge is also known as an udometer, pluviometer, or an ombrometer.
• It measures the rain in a localized area.
• A hygrometer is a device that is used to measure humidity.

• A thermometers measures the air temperature.
• Most thermometers are closed glass tubes containing liquids such as alcohol or mercury.
• When air around the tube heats the liquid, the liquid expands and moves up the tube.
• Two thermometers are used in a sling psychrometer.

• Weather forecasting is the application of current technology and science to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location.
• The output from the model provides the basis of the weather forecast.

• The information and data from these satellites are used in weather forecasting.
• Geostationary satellites orbit at high-altitude at the equator, at the same speed as the Earth's rotation, continuously monitoring one section of Earth.
• These satellites can track cloud formations and large storms as well as fires, etc.

• There are five types of weather: sunny, cloudy, windy, rainy, and stormy.
• A cloud is a huge mass of water vapour.

We use umbrella in summer and monsoon because they protect us from heat and rain.

We can get information about the weather by television, internet, newspaper etc.

Year to year change in the atmosphere is called climate

• Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the ground, temporarily equalize themselves, causing the instantaneous release of as much as one gigajoule of energy.