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Intro to Weather. Describe the three types of Clouds.

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1 Intro to Weather

2 Describe the three types of Clouds

3 What is Weather Weather is the condition of the atmosphere at certain time and place--- affected about the amount of water in the air

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5 Brain Buster Questions What is humidity and how is it related to cloud formation?

6 Humidity Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air. The air’s ability to hold water vapor changes as the temperature of the air changes.

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8 Brain Buster Questions What are the three types of cloud type? What is relative humidity and how do you find relative humidity?

9 Title of The graph –Y axis—relative humdity –X-axis—location –Remember same intervals –Label your axis

10 Exercise 2: Finding Indoor and Outdoor Relative Humidity Procedures 1.create your sling psychrometer 2.Connect to thermometer together with a piece for string 3.Make sure the string is even 4.Wrap a wet tissue around one of the thermometer 5.Spin the pyschometer for 30 seconds 6.Repeat four more times 7.Calculate the average and the humidity for each thermometer Indoor Data Wet BulbDry BulbAverageRelative Humidity 1 st 2 nd 3 rd 4 th 5 th

11 Three Types of Clouds

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13 Cloud Lab Purpose: How are the types of clouds related to the weather? Procedures: –For Five days, go outside for ten min, sit quietly and draw and describe the type of clouds that are in the sky Data DayWeatherCloudDrawing Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

14 Analysis Questions for the Cloud lab What connection is there between relative humidity and cloud type? How can you predict the weather by looking at the type of clouds


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