The Atmosphere and the Oceans
Name: __________________________________________ Period: ____ Date: _______
Essential Question: How do the atmosphere and ocean interact?
Instructions: Read pages 436-438 of your textbook and answer the following questions.
1. What is Earth’s atmosphere primarily made up?
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2. What is the lowest layer of the atmosphere?
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3. In what layer of the atmosphere do all weather changes occur?
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4. What is atmospheric pressure?
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5. How are clouds classified?
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6. What are the different types of precipitation?
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7. What are the processes involved in the water cycle?
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8. How is weather different from climate?
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9. How is the uneven heating of earth balanced?
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10. What is an air mass?
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11. What is a front?
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12. How are high pressure systems different from low pressure systems?
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13. What are important in forecasting weather?
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14. What are radiosondes?
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15. What is the function of a weather radar?
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16. What is the function/s of Doppler radar?
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17. What is the function/s of weather satellite?
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18. What are isobars and isotherms?
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19. How is digital forecasting different from analog forecasting?
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20. How do thunderstorms form?
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21. What are the three stages of a thunderstorm?
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22. What are the hazards of thunderstorms?
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23. What are the factors that influence climate?
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24. Describe the climates on the following latitudes.
a) Polar Zones ___________________________________________________________
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25. How are fossils used to study climate change?___________________________________
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26. What can cause a climatic change?
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27. What causes global warming?
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28. What contributes to global warming?
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29. When did the first ocean form? ( estimate)
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30. How many percent of earth is covered with water?
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31. What is the composition of seawater?
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32.What happens to the temperature as you deeper (depth) into the ocean? Think!
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32. What generates ocean waves?
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33. How do water waves move?
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34. What causes tides? (rising and falling of water level)
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35. What are beaches made of?
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36. What builds barrier islands and other depositional features?
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37. What do you call the flat part of the sea floor?
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38. In what ocean can we find trenches?
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http://www.oceansworldwide.co.uk/information/world_map1.html
39. What is the ocean on the east of United States of America?
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What is the ocean on the west of United States of America?
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40. What is the body of water on the south of United States of America?
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http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/EarthSC102Notes/102TheOceans.HTM
41. What is the direction of the ocean current (clockwise or counter clockwise) in the North
Atlantic Gyre?
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42. What is the direction of the ocean current (clockwise or counter clockwise) in the South
Atlantic Gyre?
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43. What is the direction of the ocean current (clockwise or counter clockwise) in the North
Pacific Gyre?
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44. What is the direction of the ocean current (clockwise or counter clockwise) in the
South Pacific Gyre?
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How many continents are there? ________________________________________________
Name the continents of the world. _______________________________________________
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Name the oceans of the world ___________________________________________________
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Which ocean is closest to us? ___________________________________________________
Arrange the oceans from the largest to the smallest (* reseach, use your phone/computer)
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