What Is Climate?

Lab Brief #2

🎯 Your mission

Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.

⚡ The twist

The slowest changes are the biggest ones.

What you'll learn

Climate is the usual weather in a place over a long time. Deserts are hot and dry, rainforests are warm and wet.

Key words

weather
What the air and sky are like outside each day.
desert
A very dry place that gets almost no rain.

Make a hypothesis first

Predict: which will erode faster?

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 4 · Read

Look at the new words. Can you say each one?

Step 2 of 4 · Do

Keep a weather journal for 5 days. Each day draw the sky and write the temperature.

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Draw a picture of what you observe.

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Share your results with a partner.

Question 1 of 3

Climate is the usual weather in a place over:

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 2 of 3

What is the climate of most deserts?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 3 of 3

Rainforests are usually:

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Mind = blown

🪨 Every grain of sand on every beach used to be a mountain.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

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✨ More to explore

🌍 Where you see this in real life: This is shaping the ground you walk on, slowly, every single day.

🏆 Stretch challenge (try it this week): Find a rock outside and try to guess how old it is.

👨‍👩‍👧 For the dinner table: “What's the slowest change you can think of?”

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