Instructions

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Instructions

• Come in and have a seat quickly and quietly.
• HOOK
• If you were keeping a daily weather log, what
  types of atmospheric data would you collect? Why?
• While working on your Hook, I will be coming
  around and checking last nights Sinker activity
  (p. 54).
• When you finish your Hook, read over pages 80
  82.

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Precipitation, Humidity, and Clouds (p. 57)

• Rain
• Sleet
• Snow
• Hail

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Precipitation Diagram
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Humidity

• Humidity amount of water vapor in the air
• Relative Humidity amount of water vapor in the
  air compared to how much air can hold at a given
  temperature
• Ex. 98 rel. humidity means air has 98 of the
  water vapor it can hold at that temp.

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Clouds

• Collections of millions of water droplets
• Water vapor cools and condenses around
  condensation nuclei (dust particles in the air)
• Classified by form and altitude

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Cloud Forms

• Cumulus
• Stratus
• Cirrus

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Prefixes/Modifiers

• Alto high clouds
• Nimb storm clouds
• Forms can be combined to make intermediate forms

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Cloud Diagram (p. 56 top)
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Cloud Diagram (p. 56 top)
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Haiku (activity 13)

• Japanese poem with 17 total syllables
• Three lines 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5
  syllables
• Usually deal with things in nature

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Cloud Haiku

• Cumulonimbus
• A storm is coming quickly
• Better get inside
• On the bottom of page 56, create at least 3 cloud
  haiku that tell about the different cloud forms.

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