Ch. 7- Weather Study Guide

Lesson 1- Water Cycle pg. 258-263

• Vocabulary: water cycle, evaporation, condensation, precipitation
• Be able to label all parts of the water cycle and explain what they do

Lesson 2- Oceans pg. 264-267

• Vocabulary: hydrosphere, reservoir, salinity, ocean currents
• Review ocean currents map in science notebook
• Know how much of the Earth’s surface is water

Lesson 3- Weather pg. 268-275

• Vocabulary: weather, barometric pressure, humidity, circulation
• Know weather instruments: anemometer, barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, weather vane
• Understand what happens to air pressure as you go up through the atmosphere
• Be able to label the layers of the atmosphere that were studied (not in textbook): troposphere (the layer in which earth’s weather occurs), stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere.

Lesson 4- Clouds and Precipitation pg. 277-281

• Vocabulary: precipitation, sleet, hail, rain, snow, cirrus clouds, cumulonimbus clouds, altocumulus clouds, stratus clouds, fog
• Understand types of precipitation
• Describe the differences between clouds, describe what the cloud looks like, identify at what altitude each cloud forms

Lesson 5- Climate pg. 282-287

• Vocabulary: climate, latitude, elevation
• Identify the 3 main climate zones- polar, temperate, and tropical