44thth Grade Science Grade ScienceSOL 4.6 WeatherSOL 4.6 Weather

Created By, Jennifer SagendorfCreated By, Jennifer SagendorfSuffolk Public SchoolsSuffolk Public Schools

The Water Cycle

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Tools of the Trade

100

Air Masses & Fronts

100

Clouds

100

Take Your Best Shot

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Weather Jeopardy

Energy from the sun Energy from the sun warms the water on warms the water on the earth causing it the earth causing it

to do thisto do this

What is What is evaporate?evaporate?

Clouds are made up Clouds are made up of thisof this

What are tiny What are tiny drops of water or drops of water or

water vapor?water vapor?

One of these is NOT a One of these is NOT a form of precipitation:form of precipitation:

RainRainSleetSleetSnowSnowFogFog

Freezing RainFreezing RainHailHail

What is fog?What is fog?

As more and more tiny As more and more tiny droplets of liquid form in droplets of liquid form in

a cloud, they combine a cloud, they combine and get heavier causing and get heavier causing

thisthis

What is What is precipitation?precipitation?

As warm moist air rises, As warm moist air rises, it begins to cool, which it begins to cool, which causes the water vapor causes the water vapor

in the air to do thisin the air to do this

What is condense?What is condense?

This measures the This measures the wind direction wind direction

What is a What is a weather vane?weather vane?

This measures the This measures the amount of amount of

precipitationprecipitation

What is a What is a rain gauge?rain gauge?

This measures the This measures the speedspeed of the wind of the wind

What is an What is an anemometer?anemometer?

This measures the This measures the force exerted by the force exerted by the

weight of the airweight of the air

What is a What is a barometer?barometer?

This measures the This measures the amount of water amount of water vapor in the airvapor in the air

What is a What is a hygrometer?hygrometer?

The boundary The boundary between two air between two air

massesmasses

What is a What is a front?front?

The direction air The direction air masses generally masses generally move in the USmove in the US

What is from What is from west to east?west to east?

A curved line with A curved line with rounded bumps on a rounded bumps on a

weather mapweather map

What is aWhat is awarm front?warm front?

This is associated This is associated with a very rapid with a very rapid weather changeweather change

What is a What is a cold front?cold front?

This is when a cold air mass This is when a cold air mass pushes out a warm air pushes out a warm air mass, often bringing mass, often bringing

thunderstorms, or heavy thunderstorms, or heavy rains, followed by sunshine rains, followed by sunshine

and cool weatherand cool weather

What is a What is a cold front?cold front?

These are “fair These are “fair weather” cloudsweather” clouds

What are cirrus and What are cirrus and cumulus clouds?cumulus clouds?

This cloud type is the This cloud type is the closest to the groundclosest to the ground

What is fog?What is fog?

This type of cloudThis type of cloud is thin, wispy, and is thin, wispy, and

high in the skyhigh in the sky

What areWhat arecirrus clouds?cirrus clouds?

Low to the ground, flat Low to the ground, flat and gray, this cloud and gray, this cloud

type often brings type often brings steady rain or snowsteady rain or snow

What is What is a stratus cloud?a stratus cloud?

Starting over the Atlantic Starting over the Atlantic Ocean near the Gulf of Ocean near the Gulf of

Mexico and the Mexico and the Caribbean, these are the Caribbean, these are the

largest and most largest and most powerful of stormspowerful of storms

What are What are hurricanes?hurricanes?

A scientist who A scientist who studies weatherstudies weather

What is a What is a meteorologist?meteorologist?

MovementMovement of air of air

What is wind?What is wind?

Instruments in space Instruments in space that collect weather that collect weather

data and take pictures data and take pictures of cloud coverof cloud cover

What are What are weather weather

satellites?satellites?

This is associated This is associated with low or falling with low or falling

air pressure air pressure

What is What is rain or snow?rain or snow?

This indicates that This indicates that there is clear, cooler there is clear, cooler

weather aheadweather ahead

What is a rising What is a rising barometer?barometer?