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7th Grade Science Unit Organizer – Earth Science
Last Unit:
Current Unit:
Scientific Inquiry
Convection
Wind
Global Winds
Jet Stream
Coriolis Effect
Global Warming
Greenhouse Effect
Air Pollution
3. Severe Weather
Composition
Atmosphere &
Weather
4. Predicting Weather
Clouds
5. Weather & Climate
Technology
Data
Air Masses
Pressure
Systems
Fronts
6. Human Impact
form
6
Weather Prediction
Clouds (4 Types)
2. Water Cycle
contribute
Air Mass
Severe Weather
(4 Types)
Fronts (4 Types)
Pressure Systems
Precipitation
(4 Types)
Structure
depends on
3
1. Properties of the
Atmosphere
created by
Atmosphere
(5 Layers)
Weather
Water Cycle
5
Micro Life
Key Terms
2
4
Understanding Atmosphere and Weather
controlled
by
Sub
Unit
1
Next Unit:
Convection
Wind
Monitoring
Air Quality
Global Winds
Essential Questions:
1.What are the five layers of the atmosphere and how do they differ?
2.How does the water cycle affect weather patterns on earth?
3.How do air masses with different pressures create frontal boundaries?
4.How are data, maps, and clouds used to predict weather?
5.How does convection create winds and how do those winds affect weather?
6.What impact do humans have on the atmosphere and what can we do to maintain or
Essential Standard:
7.E.1
Understand how the cycling of
(water & gasses) in and out of the
atmosphere relates to the Earth’s
atmosphere, weather and
effects of the atmosphere on
7th Grade Science Unit Organizer – Earth Science
Last Unit:
Current Unit:
Scientific Inquiry
Micro Life
Key Terms
4
Weather Prediction
Clouds (4 Types)
5
Convection
Wind
Global Winds
Jet Stream
Coriolis Effect
Global Warming
Greenhouse Effect
Air Pollution
4.
5.
6.
form
Air Mass
Severe Weather
(4 Types)
Fronts (4 Types)
Pressure Systems
Precipitation
(4 Types)
contribute
3
3.
Atmosphere &
Weather
depends on
Water Cycle
2.
1.
created by
Atmosphere
(5 Layers)
Weather
2
6
Understanding Atmosphere and Weather
controlled
by
Sub
Unit
1
Next Unit:
Essential Questions:
1.What are the five layers of the atmosphere and how do they differ?
2.How does the water cycle affect weather patterns on earth?
3.How do air masses with different pressures create frontal boundaries?
4.How are data, maps, and clouds used to predict weather?
5.How does convection create winds and how do those winds affect weather?
6.What impact do humans have on the atmosphere and what can we do to maintain or
Essential Standard:
7.E.1
Understand how the cycling of
(water & gasses) in and out of the
atmosphere relates to the Earth’s
atmosphere, weather and
effects of the atmosphere on
Study Guide – Earth Science
Last Unit:
Current Unit:
Scientific Inquiry
Next Unit:
Understanding Atmosphere and Weather
Properties of the Atmosphere
Micro Life
Water Cycle
Severe Weather
1. The mixture of gases surrounding earth is called the
______________.
1.
What are the four types of severe weather?
2. What are the five layers of the atmosphere?
2.
What are the four types of precipitation?
3.
What are the four types of fronts?
4.
True or False? Tornadoes form over land.
5.
True or False? Hurricanes form over land.
6.
When air is thin / thick, it gets heavier.
3. What layer of the atmosphere does weather occur?
4. Which layer of gases shields the entire earth from much of
ultraviolet radiation that comes from the sun?
Predicting Weather
Weather & Climate
Fill in the
in the table by
interpreting
symbols on
map.
1. When we say warm air rises, what is actually happening
____________ warm air up. (Convection)
2. Wind comes from all different directions because the
_______________________.
3. The jet stream is a high altitude wind that moves from
west to east.
4. The movement of wind in circles / straight lines is called
effect.
5. In a place with no wind, the
and weather never change.
Human Impact
1. Which of the following statements correctly describes the
effect?
A greenhouse:
A. Lets sunlight in and heat out.
B. Lets sunlight in but doesn’t let heat out.
C. Reflects both sunlight and heat.
D. Reflects sunlight but lets heat in.
2. Wind farms use the power of wind to make
_________________________.
3. What are humans doing to cause and increase in
can we do to stop this?