Question

ramona takes atmospheric temperature, pressure, and humidity measurements at 8:00 a.m. on tuesday outside her home. these measurements represent the ______ at her location.
ramona then looks up the average temperature, pressure, and humidity values for a typical year at her location. these values represent the ______ at her location.
a. convection; precipitation
b. precipitation; convection
c. weather; climate
d. climate; weather

Explanation:

Weather refers to short - term atmospheric conditions (like the measurements at 8:00 a.m. on a Tuesday), while climate is the long - term average of these conditions (average values over a typical year). Convection is a heat transfer process and precipitation is a form of water falling from the atmosphere, neither of which fit the context of short - term and long - term atmospheric conditions here. So the first blank should be "weather" and the second blank should be "climate", which corresponds to option C.

Answer:

C. weather; climate