Learning about the Weather
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suns relationship to _______ determines the season.A) The cloudsC)
earthB) moonD) The starsLearning about the WeatherBy Kimberly
SalfarlieGrade 3
Sunny Days4Click the picThe suns relationship to earth
determines the season.About one million Earths could fit inside the
sun.Photosynthesis is a process which uses the suns light to grow
flowers.It takes 8 minutes for the suns light to reach Earth.
5The clouds in our sky!6
High Altitude CloudsCirrus clouds are thin and
wispy.Cirrocumulus clouds have a patch like appearance.
Cumulonimbus clouds produce lightning, heavy rains, hail, strong
winds and tornados. Multi layer cloudsNimbostratus clouds are very
dark associated with large areas of precipitation.Above 18,000
feet
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Low Clouds
Stratus are generally the lowest (besides fog) and dont have
much definition.Cumulus are puffy with distinct edges and have a
bit of heightStratocumulus are generally clusters and have a
popcorn like appearance.
Mid-level cloudsAltostratus covers the sky uniformly and it
makes it hard to see individual features.Altocumulus are either
patchy & scattered or linear bands.8
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Rain drops can fall at speeds of about 22 miles an hour.Rain is
recycled water evaporated from our worlds lakes, rivers, oceans,
etc.Rain drops do not fall in a tear drop shape, they originally
fall in the shape of a flat ovalRain starts off as ice or snow
crystals at cloud level.
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Lightning
10Click the picLightning bolts travelat speeds of up to60,000
miles per secondFlorida is the lightning capital of the United
StatesTemperatures in the path of a lightningbolt can reach as high
as50,000 FStruck by Lightning stillsurviveMore than 70% of all
people
Rainbow
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12Newton discovered the seven distinct colors of the visible
rainbow.
The order of the spectrum is: RED,ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE,
INDIGO & VIOLET.
Everyone sees their own "personal" rainbow due to how we each
interpret colors.
Snow
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The record snow fall in one season is in Buffalo in 1977 (199.4
inches)There are five different shapes of snowflakesThe largest
snowflake recorded was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.Click the
picHurricane
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16Hurricane Fast Facts Hurricanes are rated from 1-4. A category
4 is the strongest hurricane. There were 3 hurricanes in the 2009
season, and 8 in the 2008 season A Hurricane has to be category 3
or higher in order to be considered a major hurricane. In order for
a storm to be classified as a hurricane it must have winds of at
least 75 mph.
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Tornado
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18A tornado can occur anytime of the year, however, many of them
occur in May.The average duration of a tornado is less than 15
minutes.The tornado is the most violent of all earths storms.What
instrument measures the intensity of a tornado?19BerometerFijita
scaleThermometerRictor scale20
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