Ch. 7- Weather Study Guide
Lesson 1- Water Cycle pg. 258-263
- Vocabulary: water cycle, evaporation, condensation, precipitation
- Be able to label all parts of the water cycle and explain what they do
Lesson 2- Oceans pg. 264-267
- Vocabulary: hydrosphere, reservoir, salinity, ocean currents
- Review ocean currents map in science notebook
- Know how much of the Earth’s surface is water
Lesson 3- Weather pg. 268-275
- Vocabulary: weather, barometric pressure, humidity, circulation
- Know weather instruments: anemometer, barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, weather vane
- Understand what happens to air pressure as you go up through the atmosphere
- Be able to label the layers of the atmosphere that were studied (not in textbook): troposphere (the layer in which earth’s weather occurs), stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere.
Lesson 4- Clouds and Precipitation pg. 277-281
- Vocabulary: precipitation, sleet, hail, rain, snow, cirrus clouds, cumulonimbus clouds, altocumulus clouds, stratus clouds, fog
- Understand types of precipitation
- Describe the differences between clouds, describe what the cloud looks like, identify at what altitude each cloud forms
Lesson 5- Climate pg. 282-287
- Vocabulary: climate, latitude, elevation
- Identify the 3 main climate zones- polar, temperate, and tropical
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