Dear Climatologists,

Today we’re going to talk about climate–the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of time. When we talk about climate, we have to study a lot of different fields of knowledge: meteorology (study of the atmosphere), oceanography (study of the oceans), physical geography (the study of places), and human geography (the study of people in places). Climate affects how people live in particular places all over the world. It even affected decisions you made this morning–what did you eat for breakfast, how did you get to school, what did you wear, what jobs do your parents do, etc.

We could study how climate affects our own lives forever and keep discovering more stuff. The fun thing about knowledge is that it’s never-ending. The more we get, the more there is.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck