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“Exploring Weather: The Atmosphere in Motion” Video Sheet
1. What form of energy is given off from the Sun?
2. What can happen to this energy as it reaches the atmosphere?
3. What types of energy from the Sun DO NOT make it through the
atmosphere?
4. What part of the atmosphere absorbs UV energy?
5. What three factors determine how much energy is absorbed at
the surface?
6. What happens when energy from the sun hits snow? Soil?
7. How does “heat” move from one place to another?
8. What is radiation? Conduction? Convection?
9. What happens when air just above the surface is heated?
10. What is the result of heated air rising?
11. Why are the poles cooler than the rest of the Earth?
12. Why do we have seasons?
13. When the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, what
season is it in the SOUTHERN Hemisphere? What about in the
Northern hemisphere?
14. Why does the number of daylight hours affect how warm and
area is?
15. How does the angle of the Sun’s “rays” affect how warm and
area is?
16. What is Climate?
17. What is one factor that is used to divide the Earth in Climate
Zones?
18. What are the two main driving forces that affect weather?
19. Describe the water cycle.
20. What is an air mass?
21. What air masses affect the United States.
22. Why does air rise over some areas?
23. What type of air has the highest pressure? Why does this
happen? Which way does the wind blow?
24. What is it called when two air masses meet? What happens
when cold air meets warm air? What happens when warm air
meets cold air?