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All about Weather
Name: _____________________________________________________________ Period: _____ Date: ________________
Essential Question: Why is there a need to predict weather accurately?
1. What is the indication that the Earth is moving?
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2. What is the velocity of Earth in the equator and near the North and South poles?
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3. How do you explain the differences in velocities on the rotation of Earth?
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4. What does it mean by deflection?
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5. What is the Coriolis Effect?
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6. What does meteorologist do?
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7. What is water made of?
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8. What causes evaporation?
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9. What is transpiration?
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10. What causes condensation?
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11. What happens when water condenses?
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12. Rain, hail, sleet and snow are called?
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13. How does lightning occur?
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14. How do meteorologists know the weather?
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15. Why is the job of predicting weather difficult?
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16. What is the “A-Train”?
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17. What satellite will help predict climate change?
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18. Why do farmers need to know the weather?
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19. Why do pilots need to know the weather?
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20. Why do we need to know the weather?
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21. What are clouds made of?
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22. How are cloud classified?
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23. What are the three basic shapes of clouds?
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24. What are the three altitude ranges of clouds?
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25. What is fog?
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26. Why is it important to study clouds?
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27. What happens when air masses meet?
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28. What is a front?
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29. What is a cold front?
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30. What kind of clouds form in a cold front?
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31. What is common among cold fronts?
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32. What is a warm front?
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33. What kind of clouds form in a warm front?
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34. What kind of weather do we experience when there is a warm front?
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35. What is stationary front?
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36. What is an occluded front?
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37. How do air masses ( warm air and cold air) move?
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Instructions: Write either “True” or “False” on the space before the number.
A. True
B. False
____ 1. Warm air rises because is denser than cold air.
____ 2. Cold air can carry more water vapor than warm air.
____ 3. The three factors that drive the direction of wind are Pressure Gradient Force, Coriolis Effect, and Friction.
____ 4. The direction of wind is from an area of low pressure to an area of high pressure.
____ 5. Cold fronts bring severe weather like thunderstorm but are slower than warm fronts.
____ 6. Hurricanes and tornadoes form where air masses meet.
____7. Earth spins faster near the equator and slower near the poles.
____ 8. Coriolis Effect is caused by Earth rotating on its axis.
____ 9. In Coriolis Effect, wind shifts to the right in the Northern hemisphere and to left in the Southern hemisphere.
____10. Transpiration is the process where water evaporates from plants.
Multiple Choice:
____ 11. Scientists who predict and discuss the weather.
____ 12. Radar tracking system used to determine the location and velocity
of a storm, clouds, precipitation, etc.
____ 13. In the aloft or upper troposphere, water vapor condenses into ___.
____ 14. Each water molecule is made of ____.
____ 15. ___is a series of satellites that predicts the weather and studies
climate change.
____ 16. _____ forms when air masses meet.
____ 17. Cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds are usually formed from ___ front.
____ 18. ____ fronts usually form thick low clouds (stratus).
A. Meteorologist
B. Doppler radar
C. Clouds
D. H2O
E. A –train
F. Weather front or front
G. Cold
H. warm
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