Test - Water, Weather & Climate

After a rainstorm, where would the water most likely evaporate fastest from?

• Sidewalk

• green grassy area

• open dirt field

• All puddles would take the same amount of time if ground coverings are in the same area.

What helps plants & animals survive in different environments?

Around what time did it most likely hail?

• 10am

• 12 noon

• 4:30pm

• 7pm

What happens to make it hail?

• There's a huge updraft of wind that takes rain high up in the clouds where it's below 32⁰F, freezes falls and repeats until it's too heavy to remain in the air.

• There must be snow on the ground for at least a few days before it precipitates again. Rain will fall out of the clouds and immediately freeze into hail when it hits the snow.

• The air temps near the ground must be at or below freezing point before hailing.

• Hail always starts out as wet icy snow, they hit each other as they are falling fast towards the ground and combine into hailstones.

Why are areas far away from the equator typically colder?

• They don't receive much direct sunlight.

• They are always higher elevations.

• Lower air pressure to keep in the heat.

• Very few cities with concrete and black asphalt streets to hold in the heat.

It's a cold winter day in Mesa, AZ. Richard is feeling dizzy and wants to lay down for a few minutes. Where would it most likely be the warmest?

• A spot in the concrete where it's shady.

• The grass field.

• On the concrete in the sun.

• On the plastic slide underneath the blue awning.

Why are ground coverings in the same area not the exact same temperatures as each other?

• 100% depends on the color of the covering.

• Some materials absorb more light & heat energy.

• Natural coverings will ALWAYS be lower than man-made coverings.

Kim recorded 2 sets of data, one set shows every year on her birthday and the other set on the 1st day of every month for a year.

Which line of data is probably gathered on the 1st of every month?
(Jan. 1, Feb. 1, March 1.........)

• Red

• Blue

• Who knows, there's no label.

What would you expect the data to show is you collected the high temp on February 25th of every year in the exact same city?

• The temps would go up or down depending upon which season it is.

• There's no way to tell what the data might show.

• It should be around the same temp.

• It should get about 2 degrees hotter each year on Feb. 25th.

What's the biggest reason higher elevations have a cooler temp?

• Mountains are closer to the moon, so they cool down at night.

• There's less air pressure to hold heat together.

• There's more air pressure so cold air stays together.

• The trees in the area create lots of wind, making it stay cool.