Ocean Currents
Step 1: Go to Chapter 7.1 on Oceans HERE and Complete this SUM IT UP! Turn in when finished.
Air masses
Use the websites below and pages 68-76 in your Weather Guide to learn about air masses and complete the Air Masses worksheet Submit when done, this will be graded for accuracy:
Fronts, What happens when air masses meet? How do air masses create weather?
Step 1: Watch this SONG on fronts by Mr. Parr
Step 2: Handout for types of weather fronts (pdf)
Step 3: Complete this worksheet on Fronts and turn in when done
Wind & Air Pressure
Step 1: Use the resources below to learn about wind and air pressure to complete this worksheet and Submit on when done.
- Study Jams- Wind and Air Pressure
- How Does a Barameter work?
- Weather Wiz Kids
- How Heavy Is The Air?
- Pages 53-59 in your Weather Guide about Wind
- Pages 124-125 in your Weather Guide about the Beaufort Wind Scale
- Pages 60-67 in your Weather Guide about High and Low Pressure
Honors: Engineering Challenge! Build you own Barometer at home and bring it in
1. Read Introduction
2. Directions for making barometer
3. Barometer Data Sheet
Honors: Bernoulli’s Principle- Watch and write down 3 things that surprised you in your Science Notebook.
Honors: How does wind and air pressure allow us to fly? BrainPOP Flight Movie (link)
Coriolis Force: Watch THIS video and take notes in your Science Notebook. Show them to Mrs. Wirsing when done.
Seasons-
Layers of the Atmosphere
Watch Felix Baumgartner's Free Fall- Which Layer of the atmosphere does he begin his fall from?? Answer in your Science Notebook.
- Use the below resources about the layers of the atmosphere and complete these notes using this slideshow and the following resources:
- Once you have completed your notes:
- Complete the illustration by adding an object to each layer and color each layer lightly.
- Add the Ozone Layer and the Ionosphere to your diagram
- Submit your Atmosphere notes to eBackpack
Clouds
Step 1: Complete your notes using the resources below. Cloud Notes (pdf) submit on eBackpack
- Weather Guide – pages 13-20
- BrainPOP Clouds video (link)
- Study Jams Cloud slides (link)
- Clouds and weather (link)
- Cloud types (link)
- Clouds and fronts (link)
- Cloud Identification Chart (pdf)
- What is precipitation? What are the four main types?
- What determines whether a bit of precipitation starts as water or ice? What determines what form it is in when it reaches the ground?
- What does rain start out as and what does it end up as? Why?
- Why is freezing rain solid when it reaches the surface?
- What happens to sleet as it falls through the atmosphere?
- How is hail different from sleet?
- What does snow start as and what does it end as? What is the air temperature as it falls?
Severe Weather- Answer the questions using the resources below
- How is your type of severe weather defined?
- How does this type of severe weather form? What are the causes?
- What time of year is most common for this type of severe weather?
- What is the geographical region of the United States that has this type of severe weather is most common?
- On average, how often does this type of severe weather happen over the course of a year in the United States?
- What type of danger is associated with this type of severe weather?
- How is it classified (type of scale)?
- What was the historical "worst" storm of this type of severe weather?
- How is this severe weather forecasted? How has its forecasting changed over the past 100 years?
- How much time is there between formation and impact?
- List 5 interesting facts about this type of severe weather
- What myths or legends are there associated with this type of severe weather?
- List 5 safety tips
- Weather Wiz Kids
- BrainPop Video: Thunderstorms
- BrainPOP Tornado Video
- The Most Lightning Struck Place on Earth
- Life cycle of a Thunderstorm (link) or (link)
- Severe Weather (pdf)
- Average tornadoes per state
- Visualization of a tornado
- How Do Tornados Form
- NOAA Tornado 101 (link)
- NOAA – Tornado resources (link)
- How to Track a Tornado
- Red Cross Tornado Packet – lots of great stuff in here, Fujita scale, mapping skills, etc (pdf)
- BrainPOP Hurricanes Video (link) & Activity Sheets (link)
- Weather Guide pages 105-111 about hurricanes
- Weather Guide pages 96-100 about lightning and thunderstorms
- How Hurricanes Form (link)
- Weather Underground Hurricane Archive (link)
- NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center (link)