Water-Cycle and Weather 2/17 to 3/17

Warm-ups

2/17 - Make a Venn diagram comparing cohesion to adhesion. (EWA pg. 8)

2/20 - Why might water be called a "universal solvent?" (EWA pg. 11)

2/21 - PhET: States of Matter Basics

2/22 - PhET: States of Matter Basics and EWA pgs 14-25

2/23 -Make a Venn diagram of Weather and Climate.

2/24 - Name the instrument that measures each of the following:

2/27 - Summarize a way to find the dewpoint temperature with a metal can, thermometer, water and ice.

2/28 - Meteorologist Ryan Davidson Explains Weather Maps - youtube.com

3/1 - How do clouds form?

3/2 - Make a surface weather map from data shown on:

• Current Surface Wind and Temperature - earth.nullschool.net

1. Mark the high-pressure systems with an H.

2. Mark the low-pressure systems with an L.

3. Mark each front you see with a line.

   1. Mark lines you think are cold fronts with triangles and warm fronts with half circles in the direction of the wind.

4. Compare your map with Current US Surface Weather Map - weather.com

3/3 Use your Science Word Parts table to find the literal meaning of the following: cirrostratus, altocumulus, cumulonimbus, and stratocumulus.

3/7

Objectives

Weather

• Describe the function of each instrument at a ground weather station

• Calculate Relative Humidity from wet bulb/dry bulb measurements.

• Identify the major shapes and altitude of clouds.

• Describe how rising air can form different types of clouds.

• Create and interpret Isobar maps from barometer readings in an area.

• Interpret weather from weather maps.

  • Make predictions of future weather using maps showing isobars, cloud cover, fronts, and precipitation.

Climate

• Describe the effects of latitude, topography, elevation, global winds, large bodies of water, and ocean currents on climate

  • Predict the different climate conditions on any shape continent, on a planet otherwise just like earth.

• List and explain the main forcings of climate change.

• Describe possible human forcings of climate change.