Point 1 of 10 — Lesson 3: Climate Elements, Air Pressure and WindsQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)
01First: the scientific terms
Climate: the average state of the weather and the atmospheric regime of a given region over a long period — months, seasons or years — in respect of temperature, air pressure, winds, humidity and rainfall.
Weather: the state of the atmosphere at aspecific place over a short period — one or two days, a week at most — in respect of temperature, humidity, wind and rainfall.
Climatic region: a defined, continuous or discontinuous area of the Earth sharing climatic characteristics in temperature, the timing of rain, prevailing winds, natural vegetation and wild life.
Air pressure and wind: air pressure is theweight of a column of airon a unit area of the surface; winds movehorizontally, always from high-pressure areas toward low-pressure areas, in accordance with Coriolis' law.
Natural and environmental hazards: massive damage to environment and human beings caused either by natural phenomena with no human part in them(earthquakes, volcanoes) or bydestructive human interference(desertification, global warming).
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