GEOLOGY

EARTH SCIENCE

CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is climate?
A
What’s going on with the atmosphere at any particular time
B
The type of weather that occurs during a particular season
C
An area’s pattern of weather over a long period of time
D
How much sunshine an area gets
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area. Weather can change from hour-to-hour, day-to-day, month-to-month or even year-to-year. A region’s weather patterns, usually tracked for at least 30 years, are considered its climate. Different parts of the world have different climates.

Detailed explanation-2: -In short, climate is the description of the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area. Some scientists define climate as the average weather for a particular region and time period, usually taken over 30-years.

Detailed explanation-3: -Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the “average weather, ” or more rigorously, as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period ranging from months to thousands or millions of years.

Detailed explanation-4: -Explanation: A climate pattern is any recurring characteristic of the climate. Climate patterns can last tens of thousands of years, like the glacial and interglacial periods within ice ages, or repeat each year, like monsoons-Climate pattern-Wikipedia.

Detailed explanation-5: -The day-to-day information of atmospheric changes of a particular area at a specific time is called weather. Climate is the statistical information of the average weather condition of a specific region for more than 30 years. 2. The weather of a place includes the short-term atmospheric condition.

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