GOODNESS, GRACIOUS, GREAT BALLS OF FIRE Page _____

You rush home from a hectic day at school hoping you received another email from Stormin’ Stan. “Please, please, please let there be an email,” you say aloud. “Maybe he’ll tell me that I’ve done all the research I need to do. Sure enough, there’s a new email from Stormin’ Stan.

Objective: Students will differentiate amongst conduction, convection, and radiation in order to describe how heat can be transferred in Earth’s atmosphere.

Activity 1

  1. Observe the materials in the teacher demonstration.
  2. Draw arrows on the diagram to predict how the food coloring will move in water.

PredictionActual

3. Provide a possible explanation for why the food coloring behaved as it did in the beaker. Use prior knowledge to support your response.

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“Beakersof water? What does that have to do with weather? Do you have any idea what you’re doing??”

/ WWW: Stan? Are you there?
/ SS: Not you again! Don’t you ever leave your computer?
/ WWWI was wondering, why did you send over that demonstration? It showed me movement of water, but I thought I was supposed to find out about heat transfer in air. Did I miss something?
/ SS: No, kid, you’re on the right track. The demonstration I sent was just to show you how particles in a fluid move when they are heated. Water is a fluid, but so is air. Since we can’t necessarily see the particles in air move, I figured I’d send you a demonstration that you could see. Make sense?
/ WWW: Yeah. I couldn’t convince you to tell me about heat transfer, could I?
/ SS: No! But, why don’t you send me a quick email when you’re finished researching and tell me what type of heat transfer you observed in the beaker? That way I can see if you’re on the right track!

READING-Use page 44 in your Weather and Climate book to answer the following questions.

  1. Write the formal definition of heat. ______

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2. Fill the chart with information from your new vocabulary words.

Types of Transfer / Description / Drawing / Examples
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
  1. Identify the source of energy responsible for the heating of the earth. ______]
  2. Sketch the Figure 5 on page 45 and paragraph 6 & 7 on page 44 to explain howEarth is heated. Include words conduction, convection, radiation, to describe the process
  1. Which layer of the atmosphere is involved in the heating of earth? ______
  1. ______is the main type of heating involved on earth. ______, denser air ______toward the surface, forcing the ______air to ______. This upward and downward movement is called a ______current.

Analysis

  1. Circle the type(s) of heat transfer related to each statement.

STATEMENT / TYPE OF HEAT TRANSFER
A /
  • Transfer of the sun’s energy through the atmosphere and hydrosphere
/ Conduction Convection Radiation
B /
  • Transfer of heat from one substance to another by direct contact.
/ Conduction Convection Radiation
C /
  • Transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves; cannot be seen.
/ Conduction Convection Radiation
D /
  • Heat transfer by the movement of a fluid (liquid or gas)
/ Conduction Convection Radiation
F /
  • Main method of heat transfer within the troposphere.
/ Conduction Convection Radiation
  1. Complete the diagram by identifying the

type of heat transfer occurring at each point.

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  2. ______
  3. ______
  1. Explain how the three types of heat transfer work together to heat the earth. Use information from the investigation to support your response.

First energy from the sun …______

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