Essential Questions
1. What is the composition of Earth's atmosphere? 2. What is the structure of Earth's atmosphere? 3. How do atmosphheric factors interact to cause the weather? (heat energy, air pressure, winds, and moisture) 4. How is heat energy transferred throught the atmosphere? 5. What is air pressure and how does it change? 6. What is wind and how is it created? 7. How does moisture contribute to atmospheric factors? Explain how land and water absorb and lose heat at different rates and how it affects weather patterns, global winds, and climate? 8. What are global and local winds and how are they different? 9. How does moisture evaporating from oceans affect weather patterns? 10. What are the four major types of air masses and how do they create fronts that affect weather patterns? 11. How do clouds form? 12. What are the three basic types of clouds? 13. What are global and local winds and how are they different/ 14. describe the diffrent types of weather phenomena. (lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, and floods) 15. How do you interpret weather maps and forecast weather/ 16. what are the factors that determine climate? |