Republic of the Philippines

CENTRAL BICOL STATE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE

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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
BSED SCIENCE
ES 104 - METEOROLOGY

NAME: Zorilla, Rica Pearl R. BSED SCIENCE 3

ACTIVITY 1.1
Answer the questions comprehensively. You may browse through the internet for your answer
but make sure to cite your sources. Plagiarism is a crime and the use of AI for your answer is
prohibited.
1. Determine which statements refer to weather, and which are considered climate.
Weather a. The baseball game was rained out today.
Climate b. January is Chicago’s coldest month.
Climate c. North Africa is a desert.
Weather d. Light rain fell most of the afternoon.
Weather e. Last evening a tornado ripped through central Oklahoma.
Climate f. I am moving to southern Arizona because it is warm and sunny.
Weather & Climate g. Thursday’s low of −20°C is the coldest temperature ever recorded for that city.
Weather h. It is partly cloudy.

2. Briefly explain this statement in your own words: “Climate is what you expect; weather
is what you get.
Weather and climate are very related to each other which represent atmospheric
conditions. However, they have different concepts in meteorology phenomena. Yes,
climate occurs over a long period of time and the weather happens in a short period.
But as we predict based on our observation we often think that the conditions of our
atmosphere are climate and had the misconceptions of weather. For instance, we can
expect that it could be warm or hot (by just observing the atmospheric conditions)
during ber-months that it should be the season of rainy and humid (Philippines).

3. After entering a dark room, you turn on a wall switch, but the light does not come on.
Suggest at least three hypotheses that might explain this observation.
a. The bulb is not working or maybe burnout – make the light not to on
b. The main source of power is off – no supplies of power
c. The switch is not working – defective switch

4. Where would you expect the thickness of the troposphere (that is, the distance
between Earth’s surface and the tropopause) to be greater: over Hawaii or over
Alaska? Why? Do you think it is likely that the thickness of the troposphere over Alaska
is different in January from in July? If so, why?
The troposphere is thicker at the equatorial position where Hawaii is situated (almost
halfway between equator and the north pole) than Alaska where is at the poles
(atmosphere is uniformly very cold and the troposphere cannot be distinguished from
the layers) that make the sun warms the air at the equator than the air at the poles.
On the other hand, the thickness of the troposphere over the Alaska in July is differ
from January, which July is much ticker due to the greater atmosphere heating causes
by the rotation of the earth. It also said that around July is a boast summer weather,
but the temperatures tent to fluctuate a bit more, it means that it is also the season of
the summer starting from June to August which is Alaska’s best warmer conditions
adventure. Thus, the thickness of the troposphere also varies to the season, the thicker
of troposphere - the summer the season, the thinner is in the winter all throughout the
planet earth.

Reference:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/troposphere