4/2 Earth Science update and homework due 4/9

Hi folks,

This week in class we finished off our weather unit by doing a quick review of what we've learned in the past several weeks. To reinforce what we've been learning in a fun way we did a game show where the students came up with the questions by going through all their notes for the year. The teams were all quite close!

For homework this week do the following questions. These all come from quizzes, homework and notes so be sure to look over your materials for the answers. Work carefully on this because there's a very good chance all or most of these questions will be on next week's quiz.

1. Draw a picture and label the layers of the Earth and the layers of the atmosphere.



2. What three reasons is our atmosphere is so important?


3. What are the two major gasses in our atmosphere?


4. Use the words, hot, air, rise, dense to describe why hot air balloons rise.


5. Draw and label the water cycle.


6. What causes the Coriolis Effect?


7. Use the words (or variations of the words), pressure, low, rise, condense, water vapor to describe the process that makes clouds form.


8. If you take a look at your barometer and see that the "needle" is pointing up, how has the pressure changed? How will the weather change?


9. Describe what creates lightning.


10. What should you do if you are caught outside in a lightning storm?



11. What is the relationship between thunder and lightning.



12. Draw a picture of the Earth illustrating and labeling the…

a. Equator
b. Poles
c. convection cells (be careful here)
d. Path of the winds (be careful here too)
e. Spin direction of the Earth
f. Doldrums
g. westerlies
h. trade winds


13. What winds effect our weather here in the U.S.A.?


14. What direction does the weather tend to move across the U.S.A.?



15. Draw and label a convection current.


16. If there are cirrus clouds in the sky, what does that say about the weather?


17. If there are cumulus clouds in the sky, what does that say about the weather?


18. What are the 3 types of clouds in the highest part of the sky?


19. What are the 2 types of clouds in the middle part of the sky?


20. What are the 3 types of clouds that can be seen low in the sky?


21. What do you call a cloud on the ground?