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Jumpstarters for Meteorology

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Teacher...............................................1 The Atmosphere ............................................................2 Air Pressure.................................................................4 Heat .........................................................................5 Winds ........................................................................7 Water in the Atmosphere..................................................9 Precipitation............................................................... 12 Air Masses and Fronts ................................................... 13 Storms..................................................................... 15 Weather Facts............................................................ 21 Predicting the Weather .................................................. 23 Weather Myths and Folklore ............................................ 27 Climate .................................................................... 28 Earth's Global Winds (reproducible) ..................................... 34 Water Cycle (reproducible) .............................................. 35 Cloud Types (reproducible) ............................................... 36 Weather Instruments (reproducible) .................................... 37 Weather Map Symbols (reproducible) ................................... 38 Weather Map (reproducible) ............................................. 39 Answer Keys .............................................................. 40

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Introduction to the Teacher

Introduction to the Teacher

It is important for students to periodically review the information they have previously learned. Jumpstarters for Meteorology helps students do just that while also preparing them for the day's lesson by focusing on the topics of meteorology, weather, and climate.

The short warm-up activities in this book provide activities that help students review what they have learned. Each page contains five warm-ups (one for each day of the school week).

Suggestions for using warm-up activities:

? Copy and cut apart one page each week. Give students one warm-up activity each day at the beginning of class.

? Give each student a copy of the entire page to keep in his or her binder to complete as assigned.

? Make transparencies of individual warm-ups, and complete activities as a group.

? Put copies of warm-ups in a learning center for students to complete on their own when they have a few extra minutes.

? Use warm-ups as homework assignments.

? Use warm-ups as questions in a review game.

? Keep some warm-ups on hand to use as fillers when the class has a few extra minutes before dismissal.

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Meteorology Warm-ups: The Atmosphere

The Atmosphere

Name/Date

The Atmosphere 1

Write a good definition of atmosphere.

Name/Date

The Atmosphere 2

Write T for true or F for false.

1.

The atmosphere is like a blanket of

air surrounding the earth.

2.

The atmosphere is over two miles high.

3.

The atmosphere retains heat at night.

4.

The atmosphere protects us from the

sun's UV rays.

5.

The air in the atmosphere gets thick-

er as you go higher.

Name/Date

The Atmosphere 3

Unscramble the names of these things that make up the atmosphere.

1. G N R T O I N E 2. Y N X O E G 3. T R A W E P O V R A 4. R A O N B C I X D I D O E 5. R H T O E S G A E S 6. S U D T

Name/Date

The Atmosphere 4

Number these layers of the atmosphere from the closest to the Earth to the farthest up.

1.

Mesosphere

2.

Troposphere

3.

Thermosphere

4.

Stratosphere

Circle the layer of the atmosphere that is split into the ionosphere and the exosphere.

Name/Date

The Atmosphere 5 rotation unevenly

move wind

Fill in the blanks.

weather heats

happens be-

cause the sun

the

earth

. This causes

the air and clouds to

all the time. The sun's heat, combined with

the earth's

, creates

global

patterns.

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Meteorology Warm-ups: The Atmosphere

The Atmosphere

Name/Date

The Atmosphere 6

Change the underlined words to make the information correct.

The troposphere is the layer of the atmosphere farthest from the earth. It goes up about six meters. Here is where almost all of Earth's meteors occur. The temperature in the troposphere increases as you go higher up. At the top of the troposphere is an area where the temperature doesn't drop any more. It is called the tropostop.

Name/Date

The Atmosphere 7

1. Which layer of the atmosphere has most of Earth's weather?

2. Which atmospheric layer reflects radio waves back to Earth?

3. In which layer of the atmosphere do most planes fly?

4. In which atmospheric layer do most meteoroids break up?

Name/Date

The Atmosphere 8

What layer am I?

Clue one: I begin about 6 to 10 miles above the Earth.

Clue two: My upper layer traps ozone, which protects from the sun's UV rays.

Clue three: Planes like to fly here because there are few clouds or weather to bump them around.

Name/Date

The Atmosphere 9

Fill in the blanks.

summer meteors winter winds mesosphere

The third layer of the atmosphere is called

the

. In this layer, there

are very strong

that blow

west to east during the

months and east to west during the

months. Trails of hot gases

left by

can also be seen

in this layer.

Name/Date

The Atmosphere 10

Place a check by each sentence that is true.

1.

The thermosphere is the middle

layer of the atmosphere.

2.

The thermosphere is very hot.

3.

The aurora (or Northern Lights) is

created in the thermosphere.

4.

Satellites travel in the exosphere.

5.

Radio waves are reflected back to

Earth in the ionosphere.

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