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Weather and Climate Study Guide

The document provides a unit study guide for a weather and climate unit that describes how thunderstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes form from the accumulation of warm air and moisture. It also summarizes the water cycle, high and low pressure systems, weather forecasting and data collection, and what surface weather maps show.

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Weather and Climate Study Guide

The document provides a unit study guide for a weather and climate unit that describes how thunderstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes form from the accumulation of warm air and moisture. It also summarizes the water cycle, high and low pressure systems, weather forecasting and data collection, and what surface weather maps show.

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Name ____________________________________ Date __________ Class _____ Page # ____

Unit 8 (Weather and Climate) Unit Objectives and Study Guide


Standard 6.ESS2: Earth’s Systems

Part 2
By the end of our WEATHER AND CLIMATE unit, you will be able to...
Thunderstorms - as cumulus clouds start to stack up, and the updraft of the warm air,
the cumulus clouds get pushed upward creating updraft. Once there are a lot of
Lesson 4: Severe Weather and Weather Safety (pages 504-517) cumulus clouds, they turn into cumulonimbus clouds. The energy of the cumulonimbus
results in a thunderstorm, or even a tornado. The same thing applies to hurricanes, but
1. describe how thunderstorms, hurricanes and tornadoes form. it forms and travels on water. First, instead of warm air from the ground, a hurricane’s
source of energy comes from warm water. This warm water evaporates, creating
updraft. This eventually results in thunderstorms on water. The precipitation of the
thunderstorms, result in downdraft. Combining the down draft of the precipitation of the
thunderstorm, and the updraft from the warm air evaporating, this creates a spiraling
Lesson 3: What Influences Weather?(pages 488-501) motion, resulting in a hurricane.

Water evaporates from bodies of water, it condensates, forming


2. describe the hydrologic cycle (water cycle). clouds, precipitation happens, landing the water back in earth’s
land, and it flows back to the bodies of water, then it repeates!

3. describe a high pressure and a low pressure system and know the symbols for each.
Low pressure High pressure

Lesson 5: Weather Maps and Weather Prediction (page 520-533)


1. describe weather forecasting. Predicting the weather in a area or region
2. explain how weather data are collected. All kinds of tools like satellites, weather vanes, wind stocks etc.
3. explain the data represented in this station model:
sp ind
d
ee
W

Temperature
dir
Win tion
ec

Barometric pressure
d

Dew point
Cloud cover

4. describe surface weather maps and what they show.


Surface weather maps basically tell a certain area’s
temperature, and more. They show things like isobars,
isotherms, station models etc.

Important Vocabulary

Already defined in Part 1:


Thunderstorm
Lightning
Thunder
Hurricane
Storm surge
Tornado
Weather forecasting
Meteorology
Station model

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