How do meteorologists predict the weather? Understand important weather terms and find out how air, water, and heat work together to make the weather. See how warm air and cold air behave through easy to understand animations and explanations. Hear a definition of climate and watch as the definitions of climate zone and season are made clear.

Originally released by Mazzarella Media, 2007. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 02, 2015.

Intro to weather (5:35); --Chaos of War (5:07); -- Footage from "Platoon" (1:51); -- Financing Wartime Empire (3:57); -- Inherited Wartime Options (3:03); -- Unintended Consequences of War (2:41); -- Fiction to Digest Reality (3:32); -- Weather (2:24); -- Weather (2:24); -- Components of Weather (2:59); -- Water Cycle (2:03); -- Clouds (1:54); -- Violent Storms (2:24); -- Climate (2:39); -- Credits: Weather and Climate: Real World Science (0:11);.