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6th Grade Science
Week 4 Day 1
6-4.1 & 6-4.2
1. In which layer of the
atmosphere does weather
occur?
troposphere
2. Where is the ozone layer
located?
stratosphere
3. What are the two most
common gasses in our
atmosphere?
nitrogen and oxygen
4. What does the temperature do
in the troposphere when
altitude increases?
temperature decreases
5. Based on the following
diagram, how does water
vapor in the water cycle enter
the air?
evaporation
6. Water vapor also enters the
air through transpiration.
What is transpiration?
Plants releasing water vapor.
6th Grade Science
Week 4 Day 2
6-4.3 & 6-4.4
1. What kind of cloud is formed at medium cumulus
or low levels, are puffy and have flat
bottoms, and can be white or dark?
2. What kind of cloud forms at high
elevations, is wispy, and may signal fair
weather or an approaching warm front?
cirrus
3. What can be produced when a cold air
mass slides under a warm mass,
resulting in a cold front?
thunderstorms and
sometimes tornadoes and
cooler temperatures
4. What do you call a rapidly whirling,
funnel-shaped cloud that extends down
from a storm cloud?
tornado
5. What is the name of a storm that has
spinning circular pattern of air in the
center, or eye, and forms over water?
hurricane
6th Grade Science
Week 4 Day 3
6-4.5 & 6-4.6
1. Which weather instrument measures the
speed of wind in miles per hour?
anemometer
2. Which device has freely rotating pointer
attached for indicating the direction of the
wind?
wind vane
3. Which weather instrument is used to
determine atmospheric humidity by
reading two thermometers?
sling-psychrometer
4. Which instrument measures the amount
of precipitation in inches or centimeters?
rain gauge
5. Using inches of mercury or millibars, what air pressure
does the barometer measure?
6. How would a meteorologist predict a
hurricane path and possible landfall?
A hurricane’s path can
be predicted using data
on its position over time
and plotted on a
hurricane tracking map.
6th Grade Science
Week Day 4
6-4.7 & 6-4.8
1. What is it called when the solar energy is
absorbed by Earth’s land and water surface
and is changed to heat that radiates back into
the troposphere where the heat cannot be
transmitted through the atmosphere?
Greenhouse effect
2. How does the solar energy affect Earth’s land
surface?
Land heats up and
releases this heat
fairly quickly.
3. How does the solar energy affect Earth’s
water surface?
Water slowly
absorbs lots of solar
energy and releases
this heat energy
slowly thus helping
regulate the
temperature of the
Earth’s atmosphere.
4. What are the three atmospheric convection
areas?
tropical, temperate
and polar
5. The warm Gulf Stream current water
influences what shoreline of the United
States?
Atlantic shoreline
6. What can convection currents near bodies of
water cause?
land or sea breezes
6th Grade Science
Week 4 Day 5
6-4.9
1. What is the Coriolis effect?
The curving of global
winds in the
atmosphere.
2. What do we call the fast-moving ribbon of
air that dips and bends and is constantly
changing and that moves from west to
east in the Northern Hemisphere around
the earth?
Jet stream
3. What can happen if the jet stream comes
down from the polar region?
It can bring cold
weather from the north.
4. What is the effect of the subtropical jet
stream?
It can bring warm
tropical conditions from
the south.
5. What are the global winds called that blow
from east to west in the tropical regions?
trade winds