Earth Systems and Patterns: SC.5.E.7.3

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Difference between sleet and hail?

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Sleet is smaller than hail and usually falls in the winter, while hail usually falls in the summer.

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Why does air pressure usually go up as the weather gets colder?

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Colder weather makes the air denser, and the increased weight of the air means that there is more air pressure.

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Why do deserts in the temperate zones experience extreme temperature changes from hot afternoons to freezing nights?

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Temperate deserts have very little cloud cover and no humidity. This means that more energy from the Sun reaches the desert in the day, but that heat can escape quickly at night.

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List environments from most dry to least dry.

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desert, tundra, grassland, rainforest

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What makes a forest a rainforest?

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They have a canopy of trees and a great deal of precipitation

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Why does hail have visible layers like an onion?

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Hail builds up ice layers as it travels through updrafts in a storm before it falls.

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What happens if the air just above a lake gets warmer than the air above it?

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The warmer air will rise and increase the movement of air across the lake

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Which climate zone experiences the greatest variety of weather with the seasons of the year? Options: polar, tundra, temperate, tropical

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temperate

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Weather conditions that would most likely result in snow:

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freezing temperature, heavy clouds, high humidity

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Which type of cloud is associated with thunderstorms? Options: cirrus, cumulonimbus, cumulus, stratus

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cumulonimbus