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Weather and Climate

Weather and Climate. Unit 2. Question of the day?. What causes the seasons?. Objective:. - The student will understand that our location on the globe and the globe’s relation to the sun are the biggest determiners of climate. Review:. What is climate?.

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Weather and Climate

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  1. Weather and Climate Unit 2

  2. Question of the day? • What causes the seasons?

  3. Objective: • - The student will understand that our location on the globe and the globe’s relation to the sun are the biggest determiners of climate.

  4. Review: What is climate? • The average weather conditions of a place over a long period of time

  5. Review: • What is weather? • Refers to the condition if the atmosphere closest to the earth.

  6. Create a Venn Diagram KEY POINTS • Daily measurements • Precipitation • Temperature • Wind speed • Cloud conditions • Related to location • Affect people lives • Annual average measurements • Trends over time • Data for predictions

  7. Does yours look like mine?

  8. Globe and flashlight experiment

  9. Key points • When the flashlight is on a region what season is that region experiencing? • When the flashlight is not on a region what season is that region experiencing?

  10. Other than the Earth’s rotation what affects climate/weather? • Location is a major factor in what climate conditions you should expect to see in a region • How close/far somewhere is in relation to the equator • If you were standing on the equator do you think you would be hot or cold? • If you move away how would you feel? (classroom tile activity)

  11. Find these cities please.. • 30.04 N , 31.24 E • 32.65 N , 96.91W • 19.08 N , 72.88 E • 48.86 N , 2.35 E • 22.40 N , 114.11 E • 37.52 N , 127.05 E

  12. Answers • Cairo, Egypt • Duncanville, Tx • Mumbai, India • Paris, France • Hong Kong, China • Gangnam, South Korea (Gangnam Style)

  13. Now that you have the cities… • What season do you think is happening there right now? • What climate do you think each city experiences? • Why?

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