Weather and Our Atmosphere: Scavenger Hunt
by Mrs. Inoue in
Cherokee County with modifications by Ms. Sussman
at Dickerson Middle School in
Cobb County
Name
_____________________________ Period _______Date __________
Go to Earth’s Weather to find:
1. What is
the difference between weather and climate? ______________
_____________________________________________________________
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2. Visit the
USGS Water Cycle illustration and list the three processes that
occur. ________________________________________________________
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The
EPA has an animated version.
Learn about the
Earth's Atmosphere by
clicking and answering:
3. What is the atmosphere and how does it help us? ___________________
______________________________________________________________
4. What elements and what percent make up the earth's atmosphere?
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5. Matching:
____Mesosphere a. upper limit of our
atmosphere
____Exosphere b. airplanes fly and
ozone is here
____Troposphere c. rock fragments from
space burn up
____Thermosphere d. our weather occurs here
____Stratosphere e. very thin, space
shuttle orbits here
6. What are five factors that determine our weather?__________________
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7. What is the "greenhouse effect"?_______________________________
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______________________________________________________________
(For an easier explanation click on
Beginner.)
Go to
NASA’s Atmospheric Pressure
site to answer:
8. What is air
pressure? _________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
9. When air is compressed it is said to be ___________________________
10. Weather forecasters use _______________________ to measure air
pressure.
11. Why
doesn’t all that air pressure squash us? ___________________
_____________________________________________________________
12. What kind of weather can we expect with high pressure? _____________________________________________________________
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13. What
kind of weather can we expect with low pressure?
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Visit
USA Today’s Weather Basics to fill out this blank:
14. Name the five types of air masses that affect the U.S. weather.
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15. Go to the
University of Illinois’s web site and look at weather symbols and wind
speed.
Name and describe 3 weather symbols. (Draw the symbols also.)
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Name and describe 3 wind speeds. (Include the symbols for the speeds.)
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16. Go to
Dan’s Wild Weather Page to fill out the table on how to remember the types
of clouds. The
PCS Weather Center has more information.
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17.
Enter your score after reading
Tornadoes- Going Around in Circles and taking the Quiz at the end.
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18. Answer any three questions about Hurricanes on the
National Weather
Service hurricane page? List questions and answers?
___________________________________________________________________________________
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20. Read this page on lightning by the
National Weather Service. Explain three facts about lightning and three
lightning safety rules.
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____ Check
the
PSC Weather Center for the latest satellite view of the U.S.
____Check out the
National Weather Service site to find out your weather
forecast.
_____Go to
Global Interactive Weather Satellite
to view weather around the
world.
Write a paragraph of
five sentences or more about one of the three above web sites.
Include a hand
drawn diagram or picture about one weather fact on the back of this sheet of
paper.