Chapter 2: Washington’s Natural Environment

1. Chapter 2: Washington’s Natural Environment

2. Learning Target I can identifykey steps from a textbook’s or class lecture’s description of a process.

3. Key Steps • The order things must take place in order for a process to work properly. • If we do not remember every step in order the process will not exist. • If we understand the key steps we understand the process better.

4. Tie Your Shoe • First, cross the two laces. Next, bend one lace over the other and put through the hole tightly. Now you will want to make a loop with one lace. Following this take the other lace and bring it around the looped lace. Finally, pull the middle of the lace you just wrapped around the loop and pull it through the hole.

5. Tie Your Shoe • First, cross the two laces. Next, bend one lace over the other and put through the hole tightly. Nowyou will want to make a loop with one lace. Following this take the other lace and bring it around the looped lace. Finally, pull the middle of the lace you just wrapped around the loop and pull it through the hole.

6. Map of Washington • Taking a look at the map of Washington State in our classroom. • What do you observe? • What is most noticeable?

8. Rainshadows • Think about what you already know about shadows. • How would you describe a shadow to someone? • An object blocks the light, creating a dark area the light cannot reach.

9. RainShadow • With Rainshadow, just like shadows there is an object blocking something. • Not light, but…RAIN! • Definition: When a mountain range blocks rain-producing weather from reaching an area of land. • Where is Washington’s Rainshadow?

11. Rainshadow Process Step 1: First, warm moist air from an ocean is blown towards land. This air carries with it water molecules in their gas state.

12. Rainshadow Process Step 2: Once, warm moist air hits a mountain range it is forced upwards. This side of the mountain range is called the Windward side because it is the side the wind hits.

13. Rainshadow Process Step 3: As the warm moist air is forced upwards it begins to cool. As the water molecules in the air begin to cool they start to transform from their gas state to their liquid, or even solid, state.

14. Rainshadow Process Step 4: After the water molecules in the air are cool enough, and have turned into water or ice, it begins to rain or snow. Precipitation: any form of moisture (rain, hail, or snow) that falls from the sky.

15. Rainshadow Process Step 5: Finally, as it rains or snows the air becomes lighter and dryer and can finally make its way over the mountain range and down the Leeward side of the mountain range. The Leeward side of the mountain is the side the light, dry air travels down. It is the opposite of the Windward Side.

18. What can we predict? • What kind of environment can we expect from the Windward side of the Mountain Range? • What kind of Environment can we expect from the Leeward side of the Mountain Range?

19. Learning Target I can describe every key step of Washington’s Rainshadow Effect using an integrateddiagram.

21. Washington’s Rainshadow Effect • Washington’s Rainshadow Effect occurs twice. • Olympic Mountain Range • Cascade Mountain Range

22. Olympic Mountain Range Cascade Mountain Range

23. Precipitation

25. Learning Target I can describe every key step of Washington’s Rainshadow Effect using specific language.

26. Learning Target I can explain how the Rainshadow Effect in Washington has impacted life in Washington.

27. Influenced Aspects of Life • Clothing • Food • Farming • Sports • Activities • Transportation

28. Clothing

29. Food