WEATHER

HOW DOES WEATHER CHANGE?

Vocabulary Weather: what the air outside is like Weather pattern: changes in weather

that repeats Season: time of the year that has a

certain kind of weather

TYPES OF WEATHER

List the types of weather:

Answer: Does the weather always stay the same? How often does/can it change?

WEATHER PATTERNS

What weather changes have you seen when the seasons change?

Does this happen every year?

SEASONS Spring: air gets warmer, it becomes very rainy and plants

begin to grow

Summer: summer is usually the warmer time of the year (often hot and sunny)

*Storms can change the weather quickly Fall: air gets cooler (sunny and cloudy days), leaves change

color, some plants stop growing and die

Winter: air gets colder and snows in some places, trees and plants may have no leaves until spring

*In some places the trees and plants keep leaves and growing/no snow and temperature just cools down

What is happening to our trees, right now?

WHY DO WE MEASURE WEATHER?

Vocabulary Temperature: how warm something is

Thermometer: measures temperature

Wind: moving air

Precipitation: water that falls from the sky

TEMPERATURE THERMOMETER

MEASURING WIND

WIND CHILL

PRECIPITATION

WHAT IS THE WATER CYCLE?

Vocabulary Water cycle: water moving from the Earth’s

surface to the air and back to the Earth’s surface

Drought: when it does not rain for a long time and becomes very hot, drying out the earth

Condense: when water vapor changes to tiny water drops (gas to water)

Evaporate: when water changes to a Gas

THE WATER CYCLE

http://education.jlab.org/reading/water_cycle.html

DROUGHT VS. FLOOD

CONDENSE/CONDENSATION

EVAPORATE/EVAPORATION

QUESTIONS TO PONDER:

How does weather impact humans and why is it important to measure it?

Does weather impact plants in animals? If so, in the same way as humans?