1. Wednesday 3/15/17
Notebook Entry: How is climate similar to weather? How it is different?

2. Water and the Atmosphere Test Corrections
Due by Friday 3/17/17
Do corrections on a separate piece of paper.
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3. Pre-Assessment
What factors affect temperature in a specific place? For example, why do we have generally colder temperatures than say people living in San Diego?
What factors affect precipitation? For example, what make our climate drier compared to Seattle?

4. Climate BrainPop Video
Climate is the average weather of a place over years.
The climate of a region is described based on:
Temperature
Precipitation
BrainPop Video

5. Cause of Regional Climates
I can write a scientific argument to explain factors that influence regional climates.

6. Patterns?
A patterns is the regular and repeated way in which something happens.
What patterns in precipitation does this map show us?
Answer questions #1=3 in your packet.
Answer questions #4-7 in your packet.
Earth scientists observe and try to understand weather patterns (aka climate) and the causes of those patterns.
For example: What causes the pattern of some areas on the South American Pacific Coast get a lot of rain and others get very little?
The scientists will then look for patterns in the factors that impact the amount of rain.

7. The country of Columbia sits in part of the Amazon Rainforest
Columbia & the Atacama
How can two different places, both on the coastline of the same continent, be one of the wettest places on Earth and the other is the driest?

8. Atacama Desert FEBRUARY 6, 2013 Atacama Desert, Chile
Photograph by Richard Nowitz, National Geographic
At its center, a place climatologists call absolute desert, is the driest place on Earth. There are stretches where rain has never been measured.

9. Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert covers 600 miles from Peru's southern border into northern Chile.
Let’s look at another map of South America.
What do you notice about this map?
What do you think the map shows?
Why do you think this?
Work with your neighbor to answer the questions on the evidence log sheet, only answer questions for Evidence Card A. We will discuss in about 5 minutes.

10. Why does the Atacama Desert get so little precipitation?
Scientific Question
Why does the Atacama Desert get so little precipitation?