The document discusses weather, climate, global warming, and how climate change has impacted weather patterns and the global climate. It also provides a brief definition of a rainforest. Specifically, it defines weather as the current atmospheric conditions and climate as the average weather conditions in a region over many years. It states that global warming is largely caused by human greenhouse gas emissions and is causing glaciers to melt, sea levels to rise, and wildlife to change locations. Additionally, it explains that warmer temperatures lead to more humidity and changing weather patterns. The global climate is reported to be getting hotter based on observable signs like melting glaciers and animal migrations.

1. BY:RENEE STELLER

2. What is WEATHER? the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc. a strong wind or storm or strong winds and storms collectively

3. What is CLIMATE? the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years

4. What is GLOBAL WARMING? Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It's becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years.

5. What are the similarities between weather and climate? Weather is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere, and its short-term (minutes to weeks) variation. Climate is defined as statistical weather information that describes the variation of weather at a given place for a specified interval.

6. How has the change in climate created a change in weather patterns? The colder the ground is the more it snows. The more heat, more humidity.

7. How is the global climate changing? Is it getting warmer or colder? How do we know? Its getting hotter. Glaciers are melting, animals migrating, temprtures rising.

8. RAIN FOREST The tropical rain forest is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. An average of 50 to 260 inches (125 to 660 cm.) of rain falls yearly. Rainforests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land surface.

9. REFERENCES Mr. Preston http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm