Question

Climate is best described as

A. the short-term average of weather variations in a specific area.
B. the areas only where the temperatures drop below freezing.
C. the daily weather as predicted by a meteorologist.
D. the long-term average of weather variations in a specific area.

Answer 1

Climate is a weather pattern in a certain place over en extended period of time: one thunderstorm in an otherwise peaceful place does not change the climate to "stormy"

the answer is D.