Research Earth Science Agenda

February 7, Tuesday:A Day

  • Be sure I have your weather station model sheet

WARM-UPS:

  1. READ through the ‘questions’/analysis you will answer after viewing the 2 storm videos

OBJECTIVES:METEOROLOGY:Water in the atmosphere and STORMS

  1. TORNADOES
  2. This is a recording of a special news presentation from the 90’s. It references WHAT would happen to New Orleans IF a hurricane was to make landfall. Their predictions were not accurate; you will recall the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina
  3. HURRICANES
  4. The end of the broadcast references WHAT would happen to New Orleans IF a hurricane was to make landfall. Their predictions were not accurate; you will recall the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina
  5. USE your questions/responses from “Unchained Goddess”, the information you learned from today’s videos, and your textbook to answer the questions attached to this agenda

HOMEWORK:

  1. Review the Water Cycle and answer the questions (1-5)
  2. Review the Phase Change notes and explain which processes are ‘warming’ and which represent ‘cooling’ processes.
  3. REVIEW ALL notes attached to your previous agendas
  4. READ pages 396 – 406 in your textbook(this is review material, with added in-depth explanations)
  5. BE able to complete the vocabulary and Concept REVIEWS AND the Critical Thinking
  6. Be sure to ask questions about the ones you do NOT know!
  7. READ pages 441 – 453 – again, mostly review material.
  8. Complete the “Interpreting Maps” section on pg. 463

Phase Changes (changes of states – solid, liquid, gas)

  • Evaporation (liquid to gas)
  • Condensation (gas to liquid)
  • Freezing (liquid to solid)
  • Melting (solid to liquid)
  • Sublimation (solid to gas; gas to solid)
  • Gas to solid is sometimes referred to as deposition or crystallization

Questions:

  1. What powers the water cycle?
  2. Does “new water” form on Earth?
  3. EXPLAIN?
  4. Why are some drops WHITE and others BLUE?
  5. Why are some drops SPEEDY and some SLOW?
  6. What is the difference between evaporation and transpiration?
  7. What is evapotranspiration?
  8. Do BOTH require a phase change?
  9. Which processes require a phase change?
  10. Which processes only involve a change in LOCATION?

NAME:

TORNADOES AND HURRICANES

  1. What types of air masses are most influential in tornado development?
  1. Describe how air moves to form a tornado.
  2. WHAT powers this movement?
  1. Where do most tornadoes form?
  2. At what time of year do most tornadoes form? WHY?
  3. At what time of DAY do most tornadoes form? WHY?
  1. HOW are tornadoes ‘ranked’? (scale used)
  1. WHERE do Hurricanes NORMALLY start?
  1. In which ocean basin do most hurricanes start?
  1. DESCRIBE the areas/zones in a typical hurricane.
  1. HOW are hurricanes ‘ranked’? (scale)
  1. What are the conditions that cause hurricanes to INTENSIFY? WEAKEN?
  2. EXPLAIN!