Clouds
Weather Instruments
The Atmosphere
Water Cycle
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Puffy white cloud formations
What are cumulus clouds?
100
An instrument that measures temperature
What is the thermometer?
100
This atmospheric layer is the thinnest.
What is the thermosphere?
100
Draw the evaporation process.
Answer may vary
100
Draw the symbol of mostly cloudy
What is mostly cloudy
200
A cloud that rests over a body of water or on the ground.
What is fog?
200
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An instrument that measures the amount of sunlight
What is a pyranometer?
200
This part of the atmosphere contains a type of gas that absorbs ultraviolet radiation.
What is the stratosphere?
200
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This process takes place in the clouds to change water vapor back to a liquid.
What is condensation?
200
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
300
Mid-height clouds characterized by gray or white patches, rolls, or layered masses that form between 2,000 and 7,000 meters above the ground
What is Altocumulus?
300
What is the color of Stevenson's Screen
What is white?
300
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Colorful lights in the sky near the North Pole. They happen when charged particles or ions from the Sun hit gases in Earth’s atmosphere.
What is Northern lights or the Aurora Borealis?
300
Identify number 5.
What is run-off?
300
A person who studies the weather
What is a meteorologist?
400
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These clouds produce thunderstorms and heavy rains.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
An instrument that measures how much rain has fallen?
What is a rain gauge?
400
These are the two most common gases in our air.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
400
Identify number 2
What is transpiration?
400
Identify this diagram. What information can you get from it?
What is a weather forecast? Tells about the weather in the upcoming days.
500
Describe this using scale, words, and symbol (use the board)
What is condensation?
500
Give 2 instruments that gives us 2 or more information
What is a weather balloon, radar, satellite, etc?
500
This is the layer of the atmosphere in which humans live and weather occurs. Spell it on the board
What is the troposphere?
500
Four types of precipitation.
What are rain, sleet, snow, and hail?
500
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Compare and contrast. Weather and climate.
WEATHER - The condition of the air now or over a short time. Changes quickly. Example: “It is rainy and windy today.
CLIMATE - The usual weather of a place over many years. Changes slowly. ”Example: “Osaka has hot, humid summers.”
Both describe things like temperature, rain, wind, and clouds.