Earth Science Weather Session Sheet
- Online Discovery Education Sections:
- Energy Transfer and the Water Cycle
- Meteorology
- Extreme Weather
- Climate and Factors that Affect It
Earth,absorb,action,aquatic,barometric pressure,biome,biosphere,
carbon cycle,circulate,climate,cloud,condense,convection (weather),cycle,deforestation,
dew point,distribute,drought,energy (physical),energy transfer,evaporation,global warming,heat,humidity,latitude,meteorology,nitrogen cycle,ocean current,precipitation,recycle,salt water,surface,transfer,tropical depression,typhoon,vapor,water cycle,water vapor,weather,Antarctic,Arctic,air,
air pressure,atmosphere,barometer,celsius,cirrus cloud,cumulonimbus cloud,
cumulus cloud,desert,forecast,freezing point,front,funnel cloud,hail,hurricane,predict,rain,taiga,temperature (weather),theory,thermometer (weather),thunder,thunderstorm,tornado,tropical,tundra,waterspout,
Energy Transfer and the Water Cycle Lesson Questions:
- How is the sun’s energy transferred around the globe?
- What is the water cycle and why is it important?
- How does the water cycle influence weather patterns?
- How do winds form?
Meteorology Lesson Questions:
- How do meteorologists study and predict weather?
- How does the movement of air masses affect weather?
- How do clouds and rain form?
Extreme Weather Lesson Questions:
- What are some types of extreme weather?
- How do thunderstorms form and what are their effects?
- How do tornadoes form and what are their effects?
- How do hurricanes form and what are their effects?
- What happens when weather patterns produce too much or too little precipitation?
Climate and Factors that Affect it Lesson Questions:
- How is climate different from weather?
- What factors affect the climate of a region?
- How do the oceans affect climate?
By convention, clouds are vertically divided into three étages (levels); low, middle, and high. Each étage is defined by the range of levels at which each type of clouds typically appears. The types of clouds are...
- Cirrus(Ci),Cirrocumulus(Cc), andCirrostratus(Cs) are high level clouds. They are typically thin and white in appearance, but can appear in a magnificent array of colors when the sun is low on the horizon.
- Altocumulus(Ac),Altostratus(As), andNimbostratus(Ns) are mid-level clouds. They are composed primarily of water droplets, however, they can also be composed of ice crystals when temperatures are low enough.
- Cumulus(Cu),Stratocumulus(Sc),Stratus(St), andCumulonimbus(Cb) are low clouds composed of water droplets.
Please study all in class notes
Please also be able to label the layers of the atmosphere
There will not be a word bank for the layers of the atmosphere, but I will provide a word bank for the matchable information like what is found in the layer, temperature, altitude(distance), etc….