1. What is air pressure? Air pressure is pressure exerted by the weight of air.
2. Where is the closest high pressure system to Fayetteville? (city, state) It is between Tennessee and Kentucky in the city of Oneida, which is in Tennessee.
3. What is the weather (temperature, precipitation, cloud cover) like there? Today it is sunny and it is 44 degrees F.
4. Where is the closest low pressure system to Fayetteville? (city, state) The closest is in Wichita, Kansas.
5. What is the weather (temperature, precipitation, cloud cover) like there? It is cloudy and it is 49 degrees F.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Earth Hour
1. What do the organizers of Earth Hour want everyone to do at 8:30 PM? They want everyone to turn off their lights for one hour on March 28th.
2. What is the point? The point is to try to stop global warming from harming the earth.
3. When was the first Earth Hour? The Earth Hour started in Sydney in 2007.
4. The website talks about the big upcomming election: Planet Earth vs. Global Warming. How would one vote for Planet Earth? How would one vote for Global Warming? You would turn off your light to vote for Planet Earth. You would keep your light on to vote for Global Warming.
5. What are five things that you could do during Earth Hour to celebrate the event? You could tell ghost stories, you could go to sleep, you could play hide and seek, you could go outside and play under the steetlights, and you could even drive out somewhere.
2. What is the point? The point is to try to stop global warming from harming the earth.
3. When was the first Earth Hour? The Earth Hour started in Sydney in 2007.
4. The website talks about the big upcomming election: Planet Earth vs. Global Warming. How would one vote for Planet Earth? How would one vote for Global Warming? You would turn off your light to vote for Planet Earth. You would keep your light on to vote for Global Warming.
5. What are five things that you could do during Earth Hour to celebrate the event? You could tell ghost stories, you could go to sleep, you could play hide and seek, you could go outside and play under the steetlights, and you could even drive out somewhere.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Chapter 18 Webquest
Chapter 18 Webquest
By: Christin Bookhart
1. What is the term for when a solid turns into gas?
2. Name all of the "Descriptions of Phase Changes."
3. What are the two types of energy?
4. When heat or energy exchanges, what energy is that?
5. When a substance changes phase or state, there is No, Little, or Alot of changes in temperature.
6. In the diagram, what is happening?
7. Name all 4 types of clouds.
8. When looking at the Cirrocumulus cloud, how far is that cloud above the ground?
9. Click on "Stratus Clouds." How much of the sky do they cover?
10. What kind of cloud forms a dark gray "wet" looking cloudy layer?
11. What do you think it means if "nimbo" appears at the beginning or if "nimbus" appears at the end of a cloud name?
12. What are middle clouds called?
13. Name 3 cloud types.
14. What is the range of middle clouds in meters? (m)
15. What are the 4 unusual cloud types?
16. Click on the stratus cloud, and describe it in your own words.
17. What do they bring? (Number 16)
18. How are clouds categorized?
19. What are condensation nuclei?
20. Name the examples of condensation nuclei.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Worst Weather Events
1. Which weather events kill the most Americans? Hurricanes kill the most Americans.
2. Which weather events kill the most people (in the world)? Tornadoes kill the most people in the world.
3. Are your answers to those two questions different? Why or why not? Yes they are different because hurricanes are not all over the world. But, there are different forms of tornadoes all around the world.
4. Read this article. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not? I don't agree with that article because I think hurricanes kill the most people. Flooding is just a lot of water.
5. For your response to #1, find three weather events. Describe what happened (how severe was the storm, did anyone get hurt or die, how much property damage, include pictures, etc.). Hurricane Katrina caused about
2. Which weather events kill the most people (in the world)? Tornadoes kill the most people in the world.
3. Are your answers to those two questions different? Why or why not? Yes they are different because hurricanes are not all over the world. But, there are different forms of tornadoes all around the world.
4. Read this article. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not? I don't agree with that article because I think hurricanes kill the most people. Flooding is just a lot of water.
5. For your response to #1, find three weather events. Describe what happened (how severe was the storm, did anyone get hurt or die, how much property damage, include pictures, etc.). Hurricane Katrina caused about
Monday, March 16, 2009
Air Masses
1. What are the four main types of air masses? What does each letter stand for? There is mP, cP, mT, and cT. P stands for Polar, T stands for Tropical, m stands for wet, and c stands for continental.
2. Which kind of air mass(es) do you think brings hurricanes? Maritime Tropical brings hurricanes.
3. Which kind of air mass(es) do you think brings drought? Continental Tropical brings droughts.
4. Which kind of air mass(es) brings lake-effect snowstorms? Continental Polar brings lake-effect snowstorms.
5. Today we learned about the four main types of air masses. In reality, there any many more than four. What are two others? Explain them. The other air masses are Arctic and Highland. Arctic air masses are colder and has lower dewpoints than Polar air masses. Highland air masses occur in regions with large elevation changes over short distances.
2. Which kind of air mass(es) do you think brings hurricanes? Maritime Tropical brings hurricanes.
3. Which kind of air mass(es) do you think brings drought? Continental Tropical brings droughts.
4. Which kind of air mass(es) brings lake-effect snowstorms? Continental Polar brings lake-effect snowstorms.
5. Today we learned about the four main types of air masses. In reality, there any many more than four. What are two others? Explain them. The other air masses are Arctic and Highland. Arctic air masses are colder and has lower dewpoints than Polar air masses. Highland air masses occur in regions with large elevation changes over short distances.
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