Unit 4

Earths Atmosphere
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Bellwork
Thursday 4.10.14
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Please refer to the Language of Science page in
the reference section of your ISN to answer the
following question:
1) What does the prefix Tropo mean?
What does the prefix Strato mean?
What does the prefix Meso mean?
What does the prefix Thermo mean?
Now, turn to page 478 in your textbook to answer
the following question:
2) What is the difference between Ozone & Oxygen?



Monday 4.21.14
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Read Pages 504-506 (section 18.1) in your
Earth Science Textbook and answer the
following questions:
1) What gas is most important to
understanding atmospheric
processes?
2) What is the range in percent volume
of water in the atmosphere?
3) List all SIX changes of state.



Important Due Dates!
Tues 4/22 EARTH DAY!
Wed 4/23 QUIZ #1 Atmosphere
Tues 2/29 QUIZ #2 Moisture in the Atmo.
Thurs 5/1 QUIZ #3 Air Pressure & Wind
Mon 5/5 QUIZ #4 Weather

TUESDAY 5/6
- TEST: Unit 5 Earths Atmosphere
- Unit 5 ISN is Due!!!!!!!



Wednesday 4.23.14
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Read page 478 in your textbook
1) Why would organisms on Earth not survive
without the ozone layer?
Read pages 494-495 in your textbook
2) What was causing the hole in the ozone layer?
Read page 487 in your textbook
3) What is the greenhouse effect?
You have a quiz today! STUDY Pages
5,6, & 7 in you ISN quietly!!!







Thursday 4.24.14
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Read Pages 510-515 (section 18.2) in your
Earth Science Textbook and answer the
following questions:
1) What happens to the temperature of
air when it expands? What happens
to its temp when it is compressed?
2) List the FOUR processes that lift air.
3) If air is stable, what does it tend to
do?



Friday 4.25.14
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Read Pages 517-520 (section 18.3) in your
Earth Science Textbook and answer the
following questions:
1) Translate the Latin meanings for the
words cirrus, cumulus, and stratus.
2) In what two ways are clouds
classified?
3) What to processes can form fog?



Monday 4.28.14
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Read Pages 520-522 (section 18.3) in your
Earth Science Textbook and answer the
following questions:
1) How much do cloud droplets need to grow
in volume in order to fall as precipitation?
2) What process explains cold-cloud
precipitation? What process explains
warm-cloud precipitation?
3) What determines what type of precipitation
reaches Earths surface?



Tuesday 4.29.14
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Read Pages 532-536 (section 19.1) in your
Earth Science Textbook and answer the
following questions:
1) What is average air pressure at sea level?
2) What are the two types of barometers?
3) What three factors combine to control
wind?
4) What do closely spaced isobars indicate?
What do widely spaced isobars indicate?



Wednesday 4.30.14
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Read Pages 540-545 (section 19.2 & 3) in
your Earth Science Textbook and answer the
following questions:
1) How does the atmosphere balance the
unequal heating of Earths surface?
2) What type of local wind can form in the
Grand Canyon at night? Why?
3) How do you name a wind? Toward which
direction does an East wind blow?



Thursday 5.01.14
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Read Pages 558-570 (section 20.1 & 2) in
your Earth Science Textbook and answer the
following questions:
1) What happens to an area as an air mass
moves over it?
2) How are air masses classified (2 ways)?
3) What is a front?
4) What are the four types of fronts?



Friday 5.02.14
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Silently READ the green paper on your desk titled
Weather Instrument History and answer the
following questions:
1) What was the name of the first book written
about weather observations and who wrote it?
2) What weather instrument did Galileo help to
invent? In what century?
3) What did President Grant start in 1870? What
did it become?
4) How have we been monitoring the weather
since the 1960s & 1970s?



Monday 5.05.14
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Silently READ the green paper on your desk titled
Hurricane Katrina and answer the following
questions:
1) Where and when did Hurricane Katrina
occur?
2) How strong was the storm when it crossed
Florida? How strong was it when it made
landfall ? What was its strongest rating
overall?
3) Describe at least THREE effects that
Hurricane Katrina had on the Gulf Coast.




Tuesday 5.06.14
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Read Pages 564-577 (section 20.3) in your
Earth Science Textbook and answer the
following questions:
1) What causes a thunderstorm to develop?
2) What type of cloud will produce a
tornado?
3) Describe the wind speeds and storm
surge in a category 3 hurricane.