Lake Effect Snow

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• choice 2

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• choice 4

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What causes the rising air to form clouds?

• High specific heat of the land

• Low specific heat of the water

• Difference in temperature between the land and the water

• Lack of water vapor

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Name a city in NY (based on your ESRT) where Lake Effect Snow is likely to occur?

• Oswego

• Elmira

• Riverhead

• Kingston

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which landscape region is most likely to see Lake Effect Snow?

• Tug Hill Plateau

• The Catskills

• Taconic Mountains

• Atlantic Coastal Plain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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• Choice 2

• Choice 3

• Choice 4

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which side of The Great Lakes do we get snow?

• windward side

• leeward side

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Cold air moves over warmer lake, the air warms and rises cools and condenses into clouds producing snow on the leeward side of the lake

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What type of air mass produces Lake Effect?

• cP

• mP

• cT

• mT

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

the side that it snows on

• leeward side

• windward side

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The side of the lake where the wind comes from

• winward side

• leeward side

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6