"Weather" and "climate" ________

A) describe the day-to-day state of the atmosphere
B) are terms which cannot be used in science
C) refer to the atmosphere as studied on different time scales
D) are synonymous terms
E) differ in that "weather" is studied in Geography and "climate" is not


Answer: C

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