What is the WIND? Global Winds, Local Winds, Convection Currents
------à Website Global Winds : www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-wind.htm 1. What is wind? 2. What is wind produced by? 3. What are two factors necessary to specify when talking about wind? 4. What is the jet stream? 5. Where is the jet stream located? 6. Because of the Earth’s rotation, jet streams flow from 7. Carefully read “Global Wind Patterns”. DO (a – e) below on the globe!! a. Label the latitude degrees on the globe below. b. Label the Easterlies and arrows representing which way the winds blow c. Label the Westerlies and arrows representing which way the winds blow d. Label the NE and SE Trade Winds and which way the winds blow e. Label the Equatorial Doldrums. 1. What are the trade winds? 2. Where do the trade winds blow? 3. The trade winds are _________ that blow almost ____________. 4. What causes the trade winds to curve? 5. The doldrums are an area of ______________ weather. 6. Where are the doldrums? 7. The prevailing westerlies are between _____ and _____latitude. 8. Winds are named from the _________ in which they _______________. 9. The prevailing westerlies are responsible for many of the weather movements across ___________ and _____________. 10. Where are the polar easterlies? 11. The polar easterlies form when __________________. 12. Why are they named the polar easterlies? 13. Which winds are most important to us in the United States? ] 14. Where is the calmest weather? ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- > Coriolis Effect Demonstrations : www.tinyurl.com/coriolisexamples 1. Click play on the first Coriolis Effect animation. A plane is flying from the Northern Hemisphere towards the equator. a. The plane ended up to the ________________ of its original target. b. Because of the Coriolis Effect, winds in the Northern Hemisphere curve to the __________. c. Why did the plane’s path curve? The ___________ Effect 2. Click play on the second Coriolis Effect animation. A plane is flying from the Southern Hemisphere towards the Equator. a. The plane ended up to the ___________________ of its original target. b. Because of the Coriolis Effect, winds in the Southern Hemisphere curve to the _____. c. Why did the plane’s path curve? The ___________ Effect 3. Why do plane pilots need to take the Coriolis Effect into account? ------ > Local Winds: www.tinyurl.com/jymyl Watch the animation carefully and replay it to help you fully understand! 1. Unequal heating over _______________ and _____________ causes ___________________. 2. While the land is ________________ during the ____________, the air above it _____________. A _________ breeze blows in from the _______________. 3. As the land ______ at night, ______ over it increases. A cool __________ blows out to the sea. …review from your intelligent mind!!..... 4. What type of air is rising? ______________ 5. What type of air is sinking? _____________ 6. What is this rising and sinking of hot and cold air called? ------------Global Winds in Action! http://www.mrzimmerman.org/New%20Folder/HW/Weather%20Water/Review%20and%20Going%20Further/GlobalWindsV1.swf Directions: On the left, click one wind at a time… 1. Describe where you see convection currents and what is happening in these convection currents: (Hint: THEY ARE ALL OVER!!) 2. Find the following winds and explain each of their locations and movement patterns: a. Westerlies: b. Polar Easterlies: c. Trade Winds: ---------------------------------------------------------- ------- > More about Global Winds: www.tinyurl.com/p2fffza 1. If the Earth did not curve, how would the global winds blow? 2. The way the Earth’s rotation makes the winds curve is called the _______________. 3. Scroll over each wind to learn more about where they blow… 4. Click “Sail the Globe”. Read the instructions carefully. You are a captain of a sail boat. Use your knowledge of global winds to sail the most efficient route possible from the red dots to the green dots. -----Awesome Winds in Real Time!! http://hint.fm/wind/ These are the winds blowing right now in the United States!!... 1. What are the highest wind speeds today? 2. What is the average wind speed today? 3. Where is it the windiest? 4. Where is it the most calm? 5. What are the wind like in North Carolina today? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now…check out this awesome global map of winds because it is beautiful! http://tinyurl.com/beautifulwinds ------> SUMMING UP THE WINDS… http://www.scienceforkidsclub.com/wind-facts.html 1. What would happen if there wasn’t any wind? 2. Air moves towards areas of ______________ pressure. 3. The greater the differences in pressure, the ___________________. 4. What is the Jet Stream? 5. What direction does the Jet Stream blow across the United States? Now, just a few more questions (you can get these from your notes too!) 1. What instrument is used to measure wind speed? 2. Air blows from ______________ to __________________. 3. The effect of the winds turning, instead of flowing straight up and down, is called: ____________________. 4. The Coriolis Effect appears to turn moving objects to the _____________ North of the Equator and to the _______________ South of the Equator.
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Students turned in the moon calendar project today. Students also spent the class period completing the work from Friday that was not finished (Questions 1-12 on page 285).
There was a substitute in class today. Students read Unit 4: Lesson 3 on Winds. Students were to answer questions on page 285.
Today we completed a cut and paste activity to give a visual for convection, conduction, and radiation. There will be a quiz sometime next week over Unit 4: Lesson 2.
Today we completed the vocabulary for Unit 4: Lesson 3. We also watched the Atmosphere Brainpop video and answered the questions.
Today we took a quiz over Unit 4, Lesson 1: Layers of the Atmosphere in the computer lab. After the quiz we worked on 4 square vocabulary for Unit 4, Lesson 2. The words are Heat, Thermal Expansion, Thermal Energy, Temperature, Radiation, Conduction, and Convection.
Today we started the lesson with a Brainpop video on greenhouse gases. Following the video and some question follow up we reviewed the three articles below as a class. Quiz tomorrow over atmosphere and greenhouse gases.
Today we continued to our lesson on the atmosphere. We cut and pasted layers of the atmosphere into our notebooks. Each layer had a special fact about the layer on the back.
We continued to work on Lesson 1, Unit 4 in the computer lab today. If students did not finish, then they need to complete the assignment and lesson quiz at home. The directions are below.
Accessing an assignment from HOME: 1. Go to the ECMS website 2. Go to Faculty/Staff 3. Scroll Down to 6C 4. Click Sarah Smith 5. On the top right of my blog, choose Online Textbook 6. Scroll down and click the textbook link. 7. The username is [email protected] 8. The password is the same password you use to login to the computer at school. 9. Click Assignments in the top middle of the screen 10. Click assignment from your teacher 11. You may need to turn pop-up blockers off a. Click the icon in the top right corner b. Choose Always Allow Pop-ups 12. Go back and click your assignment again Today we completed 4 square vocabulary for Unit 4: Lesson 1 (stratosphere, troposphere, ozone layer, greenhouse effect, atmosphere, air pressure, thermosphere, and mesosphere).
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