ICPE Weather & Water Review 2008
Vocabulary:
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Groundwater
Porosity
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Evaporation
Water table
Aquifer
Cave
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Permeability
Hydrologic cycle
Sinkhole
Leachate
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Alto (what this word means as a prefix)
Nimbo/nimbus (what this word means as a prefix)
CLOUDS: (descriptions for matching)
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Cirrus
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Stratus
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Cumulonimbus
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Cumulus
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Condensation
Precipitation
Sublimation
Meteorology
Humidity
Relative Humidity
Fog
Thunder
Tornado watch
Tornado warning
Temperature inversion
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Cirrostratus
Nimbostratus
Cirrocumulus
Questions
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What sort of weather is associated with low pressure?
2. What causes winds to blow? (air moves from ___ to ___ pressure)
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Which can hold more water vapor? Cold air or warm air?
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What is dew point?
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Why does dew form during the night?
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Why does a potato chip bag swell and sometimes burst when it goes up in altitude?
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Where is more than 95% of the fresh water found on Earth?
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What is “hard water”?
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What is the source of almost all water pollution?
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What two forces drive the hydrologic cycle?
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Where does Fort Collins drinking water come from?
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What causes sinkholes in nature?
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What causes lightning? Thunder?
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What is the reason for difference between wet and dry bulb temperatures?
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Why do clothes hung out on a clothes line NOT dry quickly when the relative humidity is high?
Review your answers to the weather scavenger hunt (see your assignment in the class data folder..)
Draw & label: the layers of the atmosphere (thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere & troposphere)
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Draw clouds and rain in the layer that weather occurs in
Draw an airplane in the layer that airplanes fly in
Draw & label: the Hydrologic water cycle.
(precipitation, infiltration, evaporation, run-off, ground water, aquifer)