Topic 14 Where our weather comes from — what needs James (21)
17 question types · 4 lessons. Tap a button on each card; the ruling goes to the build and the card shows it as ruled.
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Each lesson in teaching order: its one-line summary, the article, the script and the quiz, then your ruling.
Topic 14 · Lesson 1 · Video / article words: 140 / 406 · Quiz items: 8 · Figures: 8
Lesson 1 Rain, snow, sleet or hail: what happened to the water on the way down
The four kinds told apart by what happened to the water: rain stayed liquid; snow froze into flakes in the cloud; sleet fell as rain and froze on the way down; hail froze layer on layer in a tall storm cloud (the four-sentence rule, whole)
Topic 14 · Lesson 1b · Video / article words: 132 / 310 · Quiz items: 8 · Figures: 2
Lesson 1b Sleet or hail: the two kinds of ice
The boundary: a grain of sleet is small and froze on the way down on a very cold day; a ball of hail is hard and bigger and froze inside a tall storm cloud, often on a warm day; the "Is this hail?" run with both crossings; the March grains were sleet, the summer balls hail
Topic 14 · Lesson 2 · Video / article words: 148 / 418 · Quiz items: 10 · Figures: 9
Lesson 2 Swamp, desert, mountain: same day, different weather
Humidity recapped (water hiding in the air); swamp air humid, desert air dry, a mountain top colder than the land below; humid does not mean hot (Odette's belief, register SD-2); the why of the mountain left to Topic 15
Topic 14 · Lesson 3 · Video / article words: 150 / 411 · Quiz items: 10 · Figures: 7
Lesson 3 What the wind from the warm ocean brings to the land
Grade 4's chain recalled (the Sun's light carries energy to the water, it evaporates, most of it from the ocean; water vapor that cools condenses); the new step: the wind brings the ocean's humid air over the land, it rises and cools, clouds and often rain; the land wind as the minimal pair; TEKS 5.10A
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