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WP 3.2 Investigating Wind effects of air pressure on wind and rainfall.

Part 1: Warm Up

Question 1
1.

Use the image above to answer the question: Why did wind not form?

Question 2
2.

Question 3
3.

Question 4
4.


Part 2: Wind and Air Parcels

Goal: Determine the relationship between wind and the amount of rain.

Launch the Weather Patterns Sim. (Regional Weather 2 mode)
Question 5
5.

  1. Set the sliders for Sunlight to Surface and Surface Water to level 3.
  2. Set Pressure at Parcel and Pressure around Parcel to create wind that blows toward the parcel.
  3. Press RUN, and then ANALYZE.
  4. Record data on the first row of the table below.
  5. Repeat the process to create a parcel with no wind.
  6. Record data on the second row of the table below.

Parcel height = troposphere height

Question 6
6.

Question 7
7.

Why did that air parcel rise higher?

Sentence Starter:
Parcel _ rose higher because...

Question 8
8.

Analyze: Use your data table to describe how wind can affect the cooling of an air parcel.

Hint: Think about Troposphere!

Sentence Starter:
Wind can affect the cooling of an air parcel...

Question 9
9.

Interpret: How does wind affect the amount of rain? What's the relationship between wind amount and amount of rain?

Sentence Starter:
The relationship between wind and rain is that...

Question 10
10.

Question 11
11.

Why did that air parcel rise higher?


Part 3: Bill Nye and Wind!

Question 12
12.

Question 13
13.

Why does warm air rise?

Part 4: "What causes windy weather" Article

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Question 17
17.
Wind is just air moving from a __________________ place to a _________________ .
Other Answer Choices:
high-pressure
low-pressure

Part 5: Exit Ticket

Kimberly studied the weather in Atlanta for two days.
On day 1, she noticed it was very windy outside.
On day 2, she noticed there was no wind at all.
It was cloudy and the same temperature outside on both days.

Question 18
18.

On which day will the air parcel rise the highest? How will this impact the amount of rain?

Question 19
19.

Which Air parcel will go higher into the troposphere? Model two air parcels using the provided background. :

Parcel A has the following conditions:



Parcel B has the following conditions:


Question 20
20.

OPTIONAL:

What slide is the symbol on?

Finished early? Read or complete some missing work from other classes!

Lilah left a cup of hot chocolate in a cool room. Her mother tells her that her hot chocolate will get cold if she forgets to drink it.

How cold could it get?

Colder than the temperature of the room. It will keep cooling down for as long as she leaves it in the room.
Only as cold as the temperature of the room. It will stop cooling down when it is exactly the same temperature as the room.
Only a little colder. It started out much hotter, so it will stop cooling down before it reaches the same temperature of the room.
Air parcel 1 is at the same temperature as the surrounding air.

Air parcel 2 is warmer than the surrounding air. Air parcel 1 and Air parcel 2 started with the same amount of water vapor in them.

Which air parcel will have more rainfall and why?

Air Parcel 2 will lose energy to the surrounding air, which will cause more water vapor to fall as rain.
Both air parcels will have the same amount of rain. They have the same surrounding air temperature, so the same amount of water vapor will fall as rain.
Air Parcel 1 is colder than Air Parcel 2, so more water vapor will fall as rain.
The town of Greenville had two rainstorms in March. Storm 2 had more rainfall than Storm 1.
The temperature of the surrounding area was the same before both storms.

What could explain why Storm 2 had more rainfall than Storm 1?

Before Storm 2, the air parcel at the surface could have been:


warmer, so when the air parcel moved higher, it lost more energy.
warmer, so when cooler air from above moved down, it lost more energy.
cooler, so when the air parcel moved higher, it gained more energy.
cooler, so the air parcel had low energy and remained near the surface.
Which air parcel rose higher?
Parcel 1
Parcel 2
Two air parcels started with the same air temperature and are surrounded by colder air.

Which air parcel will rise the highest?
Air Parcel A
Air Parcel B
Energy transfers from the ___ heats the land. The land then warms the ____.
moon, temperature
ocean, air
sun, air
Question 14
14.

Question 15
15.

Question 16
16.

Which detail MOST CLEARLY shows what air pressure does to a balloon?
It's mostly one type of gas, called nitrogen. It is made up of lots of other gases,
too, including oxygen – which we need to live.
When air is under pressure, it starts to move. That causes wind. But what does
"under pressure" mean?
Just like the balloon, we don't like to be under pressure, either. Think of when
your brother or sister gives you a great big hug.
Think about a balloon filled with air. When you take your fingers off the neck
part, the air rushes out. That air rushing out is like the wind.
Warm air rises.
True
False
Read the paragraph below from the section "What Causes Pressure?"

I had a teacher once who used to say: "You don't get something for
nothing!"

He meant that if air goes up in one place, it must come down in another place. That other place will be somewhere the air is not rising.

Normally, that is where the cool areas are. Cool air does not rise.

What conclusion can the reader make based on this paragraph?
Cool air rises and the air comes down in warm areas.
Warm air rises and the air comes down in cool areas.
Warm and cold air rise and come down in cool areas.
Warm and cold air rise and come down in warm areas.