Reviewing what we have learned

Using one white board for you and a table partner, two white boards for each table. Write your answers to the following questions and see what you remember. Select one person to tally the responses for each question. After the question is asked you will hold up the white board and then check your answer. You should get one point for a reasonable answer and 2 points for an answer that matches the idea of the answers.

Are you ready …

Lets start with an easy question…

The green house gas that human activity has the greatest influence over is:

•Methane•Water vapor•Nitrous oxide•Carbon Dioxide

Did you write Carbon Dioxide?

Good, next question – clean your white, board, your partner writes now. Write large enough to see across the room

When land in the afternoon is warmer, the air is push up by the cooler air coming off a large (ocean) body of water. This is called…•Land breeze•Jet Stream•Sea breeze•Coriolis effect

Hold up your board….

Sea Breezes move from water to land.

A rain shadow is…• Shadow of a rain cloud• Shadow of a mountain• Area of land that gets the most rain on

the water side of a mountain range• Area of land that get little rain on the

leeward side of a mountain range

Question 3…

Rain Shadow - Area of land that gets little rain on the leeward side of a mountain range – most of the moisture has been squeezed out by orographic lift as the air mass is pushed up over a mountain range.

Orographic lift occurs when an air mass is forced from a low elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over rising terrain. As the air mass gains altitude it quickly cools down adiabatically, which can raise the relative humidity to 100% and create clouds and, under the right conditions, precipitation.

Read more: http://science.kosmix.com/topic/Orographic_lift#ixzz1BYTvjUzq

Sorry, I got carried away…

Next question

Question 4

The mountain range responsible for the rain shadow that Pasco is in are the…•Rocky mountains•Cascade mountains•Olympic mountains•Rattle snake mountain

And the Answer is….

Cascade mountains!!!!

Pasco

Next question is #5

Which water cycle process takes energy?• Evaporation• Precipitation• Condensation• Graduation

Evaporation –For molecules of water to change state from a liquid to a gas the molecules must have more kinetic energy. As the sun heats the water it adds energy

Next question is #6

Evaporation and condensation together transfer energy from…•The biosphere to the hydrosphere•The hydrosphere to the biosphere•The hydrosphere to the atmosphere•the atmosphere to the hydrosphere

•The hydrosphere to the atmosphere

question #7

The hydrosphere includes…• The rocky crust of the earth•The air we live in•The oceans water vapor and surface water•The living plants and animals

•The oceans water vapor and surface water as well as snow, glaciers, water in living organisms, and ground water

•Question #8

The Lithosphere includes…• The rocky crust of the earth• The air we live in• The oceans water vapor and surface water• The living plants and animal

The rocky crust of the earth

These have been pretty easy, lets try some harder questions… Are you trading with your partner ??

# 9 How do storms like hurricanes transfer energy to different sphere of the earth system?

Essay question!, work with your partner and write out an answer….

The sun heats the surface of the earth unevenly. The ocean has a higher heat capacity than does land, so warm ocean masses begin to evaporate more, absorbing energy from the hydrosphere, then releasing the energy as latent energy into the atmosphere. As the storm moves over land, the Latent energy from evaporation of the water, is no longer “fuel “ for the storm and it dies out, the atmosphere now holds more heat energy

Hummm…. I wonder why hurricanes are usually late in the summer

Hurricanes like Katrina are the most powerful storms in nature. They begin when a group of storms comes together over warm waters in the ocean along the equator. All summer long, these areas absorb heat from the sun. By late summer, the higher water temperatures allow storms to strengthen and grow. This signals the start of “hurricane season.”Warmer water means more energy for a storm’s development. Storm systems create areas of low pressure, which cause large amounts of water to evaporate. This makes the air very humid. As the warm air rises, cooler air rushes in to replace it. As this cycle intensifies, these rushing winds pick up speed.At first, these winds blow in toward the center of the storm system. As the storm grows, however, the effect of Earth's rotation begins to spin the storm around. The center rotates in a counterclockwise direction. The winds now whip around the center and create the “eye” of the storm. Swirling bands of clouds and rain curve outward from the center and give the forming hurricane its familiar shape.

•TRY A QUESTION ON THE SEASONS

•Question # 10•What is Obliquity?

•Obliquity is the tilt of the earths axis in respect to the plane of earth’s orbit around the sun. It is 23.5 to the right.

•Hope you got that one

Try this one…

# 11 Why are days for Pasco longer in the summer than in the winter?

•The sun is higher in the sky in the summer due to the tilt of the earth. Higher position makes a longer day.

•Question #12 Another essay. ..

What is the reason for the seasons

Did the tables next to you get the right answer?

Did you?

The seasons occur in the northern and southern hemispheres because of earth tilt or, its obliquity. the tilt is 23.5 degrees to the right, and the orbit is counter clockwise. In the winter the earth is to the right of the sun and is tilted away from the sun. It receives INDIRECT sunlight, it is less intense, and days are shorter so less heat is transferred…. COLD WEATHER. In the summer we are on the left side of the sun, and the earth is tilted towards the sun, giving us more DIRECT sunlight. The days are longer, light is more intense and there is more heat transferred…. HOT WEATHER.

If you need to study the information is in our text.

Well, most of it.

Tomorrow: Climate and the carbon cycle!