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BELL RINGER

List the acronym for the atmosphere layers and
tell me what they stand for.
WEATHER BASICS

sun
The ____________is
the source of
energy
weather
________________
for _______________!
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____________________________________________
(EARTH)
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-_________
moves from ___________
pressure to
Air
high
low
__________
pressure
CONDUCTION REVIEW

An Example of Conduction:
 A.
the sun heating the Earth
 B. spoon in hot soup
 C. a space heater
 D. None of the above
CONVECTION REVIEW

An Example of Convection:
 A.
the sun heating the Earth
 B. spoon in hot soup
 C. a space heater
 D. None of the above
RADIATION REVIEW

An Example of Radiation:
A. the sun heating the Earth
 B. spoon in hot soup
 C. a space heater
 D. None of the above
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
heats
-Sun _____________
Earth
radiation
air
(_______________),
Earth heats _________
above it (______________),
air
conduction
_____________
(_______________),
rises
convection
lowers
_____________
pressure
COMPLETE

Convection, Conduction, Radiation Foldable
-What happens to radiation coming from the
Sun to Earth?

*_____________
(______%)...ozone,
absorbed
20
________________,
ionosphere, clouds
thermosphere
 -Absorbed by _____________
(_____%)…
Earth
50
________
it.
heats up Earth and air ____________
above

-Reflected and ______________
scattered
25
troposphere
(_____%)…
by __________________
(clouds,
water in air, pollution in air, ect)
Earth

-Reflected by ____________
(____%)…return
to ________
5
space and/or _________
heats
atmosphere
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BILL NYE-WIND AND ATMOSPHERE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGNxYtT_3
6I
AIR MOVEMENT
surface
The Earth’s _____________
heats at
rates
different ___________
 warming the ________
above it
air
pressure
 causes the air ______________
to
______________;
change
 causing _________
to move from higher to
air
lower ________________
pressure
 (drawing)
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BILL NYE- WIND
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBqohRu2R
Rk
CLICKER
What previous saying can we use to help us
remember which way wind/pressure moves?
A. High to low with the flow
B. TIMS T
C. Up and down
D. Convection, conduction and radiation
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WIND AND AIR PRESSURE
WIND
Wind
movement
air
________=
____________of
_____from
area of
high ____________to
area of _______pressure
pressure
low
differences

-caused by ___________in
___________due
pressure
unequal
air
to __________heating
of ______
temp

-pressure—_______increase
=
decrease
pressure __________

Temp decrease = pressure increase
Humidity

__________increase
=
increase
pressure_________

__________increase
=
Elevation
pressure_________
decrease

LOCAL WINDS
Blow
any
short
_______from
_____direction,
______distances
Sea
sea
land
 _____breeze
= flow of air from ______to______
Land
land
sea
 _______breeze
= flow of air from _____to_____
sea
night
warmer
 *during _______air
over _____is
________than
cooler
land so it_______.
rises
air over______,
The ________air
land
over the ________moves
_____to
take its
in
place.
slower
 *water warms _________than
land
 (DIAGRAM—include sun and moon)
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CLICKER
Which image shows a sea breeze?
A.

B.
AIR PRESSURE

Air Pressure = the _________that
the air in
force
exerts
earth
the atmosphere ________on
the__________
CLICKER
When the temperature increases, molecules….
A. Speed up and compact
B. Slow down and compact
C. Speed up and spread out
D. Slow down and spread out
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FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE AIR PRESSURE
____________when
the temperature of a
Temperatureheated
fluid is_________,
the molecules
spread________,
causing the fluid to be
apart
_______dense;
therefore, __________air
less
lowering
pressure.
increase
decrease air

*__________temp
= __________
pressure

____________water
vapor molecules have a
Water Vapormass
________less
than that of other gas
molecules in the air; so, increasing
__________water
vapor
lowers
_______in
the air, ________the
mass of
air
pressure
the_____,
thus lowering_________
increase

*________water
vapor =
decrease
__________pressure

increases the air
_________as
elevation_________,
Elevationthinner
less
gets _________(______molecules
per area);
lowering
thus __________the
air pressure
increase

*_________elevation/altitude;
decrease
___________air
pressure
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HOMEWORK

Complete Land/Sea Breeze ws