1. A Standard at a Time: Understanding World Geography Reporting Category #2: Geography WG.03A
WG.3.A Explain weather conditions and climate in relation to annual changes in Earth Sun relationships

2. Which words do you know, and which do you need help with?
Climate vs. Weather
Rotation
Revolution
Four Spheres
Equinox
Elevation
Air Density
Tilt
Solstice

3. Option to Add Images
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4. Who can tell me: What’s the difference between…
Revolution
Rotation
Rotation: the Earth completely rotates on its axis every 24 hours. (alternating between night and day)
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5. Who can tell me: What’s the difference between…
WEATHER
CLIMATE
What's the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time.
-- NASA (
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6. Who can tell me: What does this have to do with climate or weather?
WINTER for Us,
SUMMER for Australia
Hint:
Tilt
Farthest
NEAREST
SOURCE:
Key words: eliptical orbit; solstice; equinox revolution
Solstice: One of two days on which the Sun’s rays strike directly on the Tropic of Cancer (June21) or the Tropic of Capricorn (Dec. 22), marking the beginning of summer and winter.
Hint:
Proximity during REVOLUTION
SUMMER for Us,
WINTER for Australia

7. DIRECT RAYS Earth INDIRECT RAYS SUMMER (Northern Hemisphere)
North Pole
Equator
Earth
When the Sun’s rays fall directly on the equator, day and night time hours are almost equal (Spring and Fall)
South Pole
INDIRECT RAYS
WINTER (Southern Hemisphere)
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8. INDIRECT RAYS Earth WINTER (Northern Hemisphere) North Pole Equator
South Pole
SUMMER (Southern Hemisphere)
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9. Who can tell me: What does LATITUDE have to do with climate and weather?
Hint:
Tilt
SOURCES:
Where it hits, it heats.
Equator always gets it.
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10. Who can tell me: What does ELEVATION have to do with climate and weather?
The higher,
the colder.
(Less dense air
can’t hold heat.)
The lower,
the warmer.
(Dense air
holds heat.)
SOURCES:
The denser the air, the more the heat. The higher the elevation, the less the density.
Hint: Air Density

11. Talk to each other, and then talk to me…
WG.3A Explain weather conditions and climate in relation to annual changes in Earth Sun relationships.
When is it hottest, when is it coldest, where and why?
WORDS to use when you answer:
CLIMATE WEATHER REVOLUTION
PROXIMITY LATITUDE ELEVATION
AIR DENSITY TILT EQUATOR

12. BIOMES How do climate and latitude affect a biome?
WG.4C Explain the influence of climate on the distribution of biomes in different regions
[SUPPORTING STANDARD]
WG.4C Explain the influence of climate on the distribution of biomes in different regions

13. Which words are you familiar with, and which do you not yet know?
Biome
High Latitude
Low Latitude
Ecosystems
Biogeography
Isolation
Mid Latitude
Adaptation
Environment

14. How does CLIMATE affect BIOMES?
SOURCES:
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15. How does LATITUDE affect BIOMES?
Tundra
Grasslands
Forests
Aquatic
Desert
SOURCES:
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16. Locate the BIOMES… HIGH LATITUDES MIDDLE LATITUDES LOW LATITUDES
(TROPICAL)
SOURCE:
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17. Talk to each other, and then talk to me…
WG.4C Explain the influence of climate on the distribution of biomes in different regions
How do climate and latitude affect a biome?
Use the word wall words to answer.
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