Intro to Weather

Welcome to our new unit, Weather Patterns! For this unit, we will start to investigate weather and why some areas experience more severe weather than others. To start off, you will watch three short videos and answer some guiding questions. This will help you start our unit strong!

Part 1: Water Cycle

Directions: Watch the short video and answer the review questions.

1.

Where does all the water in rain come from? Select all that apply.

2.

True or False: When water molecules in clouds collect into big enough drops, they fall down as rain.

3.

What is the Water Cycle?

4.

True or False: We are drinking the same water that dinosaurs once drank.

Part 2: How does Rain Form and what is the Water Cycle?

Directions: Watch the short video and answer the review questions.

5.

When the sun heats up the water, the water is transformed into it's gas phase. What is this gas called?

6.

How do clouds form in the sky?

7.

Match the definition with it's correct vocabulary term

process in which water circulates through different steps to be recycled around the world
process when gas turns to liquid
process when liquid transforms to gas
process in which liquid falls from clouds

Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Water Cycle

Part 3: Weather vs. Climate Video

Part 4: Weather vs Climate Article

Link to online article with read-aloud option: https://newsela.com/read/natgeo-difference-weather-climate/id/2000002785/

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Welcome to our new unit, Weather Patterns! For this unit, we will start to investigate weather and why some areas experience more severe weather than others. To start off, you will watch three short videos and answer some guiding questions. This will help you start our unit strong!

Part 1: Water Cycle

Where does all the water in rain come from? Select all that apply.

True or False: When water molecules in clouds collect into big enough drops, they fall down as rain.

What is the Water Cycle?

True or False: We are drinking the same water that dinosaurs once drank.

Part 2: How does Rain Form and what is the Water Cycle?

When the sun heats up the water, the water is transformed into it's gas phase. What is this gas called?

How do clouds form in the sky?

Match the definition with it's correct vocabulary term

Part 3: Weather vs. Climate Video

Part 4: Weather vs Climate Article

These are some of the conditions of Earth's lower atmosphere according to the article

How do you think weather affects global warming?