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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
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Air Masses & Fronts
100
Clouds
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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?