5th Grade Meteorology
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Use the links below to help answer the essential questions.
METEOROLOGY Essential Questions
What is weather?
What is in the air?
What is the water cycle?
How do you differentiate between climate and weather?
What causes weather?
What causes storms?
How can humans prepare and be safe for severe weather?
How can we forecast the weather?
What effect does pollution have on weather?
What is weather?
http://www.econet.org.uk/weather/whatis.html
http://www.rcn27.dial.pipex.com/cloudsrus/whatis.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/whatisweather/aboutweather/flash_menu.shtml
Weather and People: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/whatisweather/weatherandpeople/index.shtml
What's in the air?
http://eo.ucar.edu/kids/sky/air1.htm
http://www.weatherquestions.com/What_is_air_made_of.htm
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/epd/bcairquality/101/what-is-air.html
What is the water cycle?
Various Info and Activities:Thinker's Video: http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.htmlThinker's Word Scramble: http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw000/kids/flash/flash_wordscramble.htmlThinker's Matching: http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw000/kids/flash/flash_matching.htmlHow do you differentiate between climate and weather?
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html
http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/basics/weather_vs_climate.html
What causes weather?
http://staff.gpschools.org/speirss/meapcontent/responses/weathcause.htm
What causes storms?
http://www.learner.org/interactives/weather/storms.html
Thunderstorms: http://www.weatherquestions.com/What_causes_thunderstorms.htm
Hurricanes: http://www.weatherquestions.com/What_causes_hurricanes.htm
Hurricanes: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/translating-uncle-sam/stories/what-causes-hurricanes
How can humans prepare and be safe for severe weather?
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/disaster_prevention.shtml
http://www.mygreathome.com/safety/severe_weather/blizzards.htm
How can we forecast the weather?
Forecasting: http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/forecasttips.html
Franklin: http://www.fi.edu/weather/
What effect does pollution have on weather?
http://www.mapsofworld.com/referrals/weather/weather-and-environment/pollution-and-weather.html
http://www.livestrong.com/article/151454-air-pollution-its-effects-on-the-weather/
Greenhouse & Global Warming: http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/globalwarming.html
