Climate is best described as the
a. short-term average of weather variations in a specific area
b. daily weather predicted by a meteorologist
c. areas where the temperature can drop below freezing
d. long-term average of weather variations in a specific area

Climate is the long term general known weather of an area. For example, if I say a desert climate - you think of really hot and dry area. However, it can sometimes rain, and the weather can sometimes change. 

But, the majority of the time - the desert is hot and really dry. So, we come to believe it as such. =)

Prior to the creation of the us constitution, the general view of representative government is that it only worked in very small-scale environments- essentially a city-state or smaller. otherwise, the actual reflection of popular will declined in the representatives (ie, the difference between 1 representative per 100 citizens and 1 representative per 10,000 citizens), and generally the whole process became inefficient and self-destructive.james madison, however, was like 'no beezy'. he remarked that small republics were prone to faction and thus collapsed quickly. a large republic, he said, had so many interests and factions that none could rule, and thus they had to moderate and compromise.

A. is considered an abiotic factor