Reporting Category 3 Peer Practice

The kinds of data that reflect climate are different from the conditions described in weather data. Which of the following is a description of climate?

• Today it is hot and sunny in Phoenix, Arizona.

• Summers are usually mild in Lansing, Michigan.

• Last week it rained every day in San Antonio, Texas.

Most evaportation in the water cycle happens from oceans. This is because oceans-

• expose the most water to the Suns energy

• contains water with salt dissolved in it

• have currents that constantly mix them

Students built a model of the water cycle by putting water in the bottom of a plastic bottle and then shining a lamp on it. What part of the model represents the Sun’s energy?

• Lamp shining on bottle

• Tiny droplets forming at top of bottle

• Drops running down the side of bottle

Day and night on the Earth are caused by -

• the orbit of the Moon around the Earth

• the rotation of the Sun on it axis

• the rotation of the Earth on its axis

A student observed the Sun throughout the day over the neighbor’s house. The change the student observed is caused by -

• orbit of Earth around the Sun

• rotation of Earth on its axis

• orbit of the Sun through space

What is this diagram representing? 

• Earth revolving on its axis every 365 days to make day/night
• Earth rotating on its axis around the sun every year
• The sun rotates on its axis around Earth to make day/night
• The Earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours to make day/night

How do we know this chart is showing climate?

• It has Low and High temperatures
• It says average and has many months (long time)
• The temperature is in Fahrenheit to be more accurate
• None of the above

What is happening in this water cycle during the CONDENSATION phase?

• The gas is cooling and turning back into a liquid
• The gas is heating up and evaporating
• The water is coming back down to earth as precipitation
• The liquid is heating up and changing into a gas/vapor

About what time would this be? 

• around 7 AM in the morning
• around 7 PM in the evening
• around noon (12 PM)
• none of the above

The Sun rises in the ______ and sets in the ____________. 

• sunrise - east
  sunset - west
• sunrise - north
  sunset west
• sunrise - east
  sunset - south
• sunrise - west
  sunset - east