Weather is what we see and feel outside every day. It can be sunny, rainy, windy, or snowy. The weather is always changing, and sometimes it can be different in different places. The seasons have an effect on the weather. There are four seasons: spring, summer, fall, and winter. Each season has different weather. In […]
Engineers have an important job! They build things like buildings, bridges, and roads that we use every day. But when they build these things, they have to make sure they are safe and strong. And one of the things they have to think about is the weather. Why do they need to think about the […]
Climate is the pattern of weather that a place experiences over a long period of time, usually 30 years or more. This pattern includes average temperatures, rainfall, and wind patterns. Weather, on the other hand, is the short-term condition of the atmosphere in a specific place at a specific time. It includes things like today’s […]
Climate is the long-term pattern of weather that a place experiences over a period of time, usually 30 years or more. This includes things like average temperature, rainfall, and wind patterns. Engineers are people who design and build things like homes, bridges, and other structures. They have to take into consideration the climate of an […]
Snowflakes are delicate and intricate crystals of ice that form in the Earth’s atmosphere. These beautiful snowflakes are a type of precipitation, which means that they form from water vapor that condenses and freezes in the air. The process of snowflake formation begins when water vapor in the air cools and condenses into tiny water […]
The poles are cold and the tropics are warm because of the way the Earth’s orbit around the sun and the tilt of the Earth’s axis affects the amount of sunlight different parts of the Earth receive. The Earth orbits, or travels around, the sun in a path that is shaped like an oval. As […]
The seasons are caused by the Earth’s orbit around the sun and the tilt of the Earth’s axis. The Earth orbits, or travels around, the sun in a path that is shaped like an oval. It takes about 365.24 days for the Earth to make one complete orbit around the sun. As the Earth orbits […]
Have you ever noticed that environments tend to stay the same as long as certain conditions remain in balance? For example, a forest will remain a forest as long as the temperature, rainfall, and soil conditions are suitable for trees to grow. However, if one or more of these conditions change, then the environment will […]
Everything in the Universe has gravity, including you! Gravity attracts objects toward each other. The larger an object is, the more gravity it has. For example, a star, like the Sun has significantly more gravity than an asteroid. Like all fields, including magnetism, static electricity, and yes, gravity, the attractive force increases the closer you […]
Scientists are always learning more about how the world works. Mankind has known about the effects of El Niño & La Niña for many centuries, but it wasn’t until recently that we began to understand what was actually occuring. El Niño was first noticed by fishermen who lived off the coast of Peru. These fishermen […]
