7-Water on Earth
Lessons
How can the oceans be described?
Where is fresh water found?
What is the water cycle?
How do clouds form?
EOG Vocabulary and Concepts
What are the components of the water cycle?
condensation
precipitation
evaporation
runoff
the Sun
What type of weather do clouds bring?
air pressure
cloud formation
cumulus clouds
cirrus clouds
stratus clouds
Lesson 1, How can the oceans be described?
What is the hydrosphere?
How much of Earth’s surface is covered with water?
Which body of water makes up most of the hydrosphere?
How do oceans become saline?
Which elements makeup salt?
Where are the temperatures of the ocean the coldest?
What causes most currents on the oceans’ surfaces?
Which current carries warm water toward the poles?
Where does the Gulf Stream carry its current?
What are some resources that we get from the ocean?
NC Standard - 5. L.2.1
Water-based ecosystems may be fresh water (lakes and ponds) or saltwater (oceans, estuaries and saltwater marshes).
Oceans are large bodies of saltwater divided by continents. Oceans have many types of ecosystems depending on the conditions (sunlight, temperature, depth, salinity) of that part of the ocean. Most organisms live where the ocean is shallow (from the shoreline to the continental shelf) because sunlight can reach deep and the water is warm making food abundant.
Lesson 2, Where is fresh water found?
How much of Earth’s water is fresh water?
Where is most of Earth’s fresh water?
What happens to precipitation after it falls from the clouds?
What is groundwater?
What is an aquifer?
What is the water table?
How are lakes and ponds formed?
What causes lakes to dry up?
What is a watershed?
What is a reservoir?
NC Standard - 5. L.2.1
Water-based ecosystems may be fresh water (lakes and ponds) or saltwater (oceans, estuaries and saltwater marshes).
Lakes and ponds are bodies of freshwater that are surrounded by land. Ponds are usually shallower than lakes and the temperature of the water usually stays the same from top to bottom.
Lesson 3 – What is the water cycle?
What is water vapor?
What is air pressure?
What is the water cycle?
What are the steps of water in the water cycle?
What affects the steps of the water cycle?
What is evaporation?
What is condensation?
What is precipitation?
What is sublimation?
What is the driving force of the water cycle?
What are other ways that water enters the water cycle?
NC Standard
5.P.2 Understand the interactions of matter and energy and the changes that occur.
5.P.2.1 -- Explain how the sun’s energy impacts the processes of the water cycle (including, evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation and runoff).
5.P.2.1 -- Students know that the sun provides the energy that is a driving force for most biotic and abiotic cycles on the surface of the earth. Students know that the sun’s energy fuels the water cycle and impacts different aspects of the water cycle (evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation).
Lesson 4, How do clouds form?
What are clouds?
When do clouds form?
What two things affect cloud formation?
How does air pressure affect cloud formation?
What are cirrus clouds?
What type of weather do cirrus clouds bring?
What are cumulus clouds?
What type of weather do cumulus clouds bring?
What are stratus clouds?
What type of weather do stratus clouds bring?
Which prefix means precipitation?
Which prefix means mid to high altitude?
NC Standard
5.E.1 Understand weather patterns and phenomena, making connections to the weather in a particular place and time.
5.E.1.2 -- Predict upcoming weather events from weather data collected through observation and measurements.
5.E.1.2 -- Students also can identify atmospheric conditions (presence and type of clouds [stratus, cirrus, cumulous], fronts) that are associated with predictable weather patterns. Students can make basic weather predictions using these skills.