7.++Weather

 __**Designing Our Atmosphere:**__ 45 points Objective: Create a visual of the Earth's atmosphere.

Make a drawing of the Earth's atmosphere that includes: 1. The 7 layers of the atmosphere. (7pts) 2. The distance each layer occupies (7pts) 3. The temperature range within the layer (7pts) 4. The function of each layer. (4 pts) 5. What might we expect to "see/find" in each layer? (4 pts) 6. Relationship between height and temperature of each layer. (4 pts)

Please make sure your drawing contains each of the 6 components above. Color each layer a different color. Please be neat and use class time appropriately. (7pts) 

**Air Movement **
 * Read pages 21-25 in The Air Around You and answer the following questions: **


 * 1) What is wind?
 * 2) Sketch Figure 15 and label.
 * 3) Why does the equator receive more radiation than the North or South?
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Heated air is less or more dense?
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Colder air is less or more dense?
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Explain what happens with warm air from the equator and colder air from the north/south.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Explain the Coriolis Effect.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Copy page 23 into your notes: This will be VERY IMPORTANT!
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Global wind systems (like you illustrated from page 23), determine major weather patterns for the entire planet. Smaller wind systems affect weather.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Describe sea breezes and land breezes and the differences between the two.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Weather Flip Book


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Following Mrs. Adams’ directions, create a Weather Flip book. Fill your flip book with the information listed below (Weather Flip Contents). Use //The Air Around You// as a reference to answer the following: **
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Weather Flip Contents: __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Define and give examples of each: weather, air temperature, wind, humidity, condensation, relative humidity, dew point <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What happens as air is heated? Cooled? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How does temperature impact humidity? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How does a cloud form? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How are clouds classified? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Draw a few examples <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">List and describe the 3 main cloud types <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Define: cirro, alto and strato prefixes <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What does “nimbus” mean? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What do nimbus clouds indicate? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Define: precipitation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What determines the size of raindrops? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What is hail and how does it form? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">--- [|2011 Winter Weather Predictions]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">1. Weather Factor Definitions **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">2. Temperature and Weather: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">3. Cloud Formation: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">4. Cloud Types **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">5. Precipitation **

[|NOAA Winter Weather]

[|Weather Forecasting]

[|Understanding the Weather]

[|Twister]

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Weather Unit Resources <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">[|Severe Weather Disaster] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">[|Severe Weather Links] [|Scholastic Weather] [|Weather Facts] [|FEMA for kids]

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Read pages 44-51 in //The Air Around You// book. Answer the following questions :

1. Why does the weather change constantly? 2. Looking at the map on page 44, what are the 6 major air masses that affect weather in the U.S.? 3. Of the 6 air masses, which do you think impact PA? Why? (you will need to THINK – it’s not in the book) 4. Wind flows from **high/low** pressure areas into **high/low** pressure areas. 5. In the northern hemisphere, the Earth’s rotation causes winds to blow in a **clockwise/counter-clockwise** direction. Swirling low pressure areas are called __. 6. What kind of weather is associated with cyclones? 7. Describe anticyclones in terms of air pressure and weather produced. 8. Describe the weather associated with low-pressure and high-pressure air masses. 9. What is a front? 10. Briefly describe what happens with a cold front: Warm front: 11. Briefly describe (by recording 4-6 facts about each event) each of the following severe weather events: a. Thunderstorms (w/ lightning and thunder) b. tornadoes c. hurricanes/cyclones/typhoons d. blizzards