1. Good Morning!
PREPARED:
Climate Packet
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PERFORMING: on the blue card, complete your warm up
“Climate and weather are a result of complex interactions between the sun’s energy, surfaces on the earth, and the atmosphere. Today, many scientists are concerned that human activities are also affecting climates worldwide”
Respond to the statement above. What do you think the statement means? Can you make any connections?

2. Activity 58: The Causes of Climate
Key Concepts REVIEW :
The sun is the major source of energy for phenomena on earth’s surface, including ocean currents, winds, the water cycle, and other factors that influence weather and climate.
Factors that influence climate include the heating and cooling of land and water, ocean currents, latitude, elevation, landforms and global wind currents
Oceans have a major effect on climate, because water in the oceans hold a large amount of heat.
Key Vocabulary
Altitude
Climate
Climatologist
Landform
Latitude
Ocean current

3. Today: Key Concepts: Learning
Human activities are also affecting climates worldwide
Learning
Explain how a change in climate can be measured by using at least two key vocabulary words as evidence to support your thinking.

4. Chasing Ice Chasing Ice Key Vocabulary

5. Weather
The changes we see in the atmosphere, usually described by temperature, wind, and precipitation over a period of hours and days.

6. Climate
The general weather that characterizes a place over a long period of time, helping us understand the normal variations of weather in that place.

7. Atmosphere
The mixture of gases encompassing the earth that provides the air we breathe and protects the planet from UV radiation from the sun; extends 20 miles up from the surface of the Earth

8. QUICK CHECK IN Use your cards: (a, b, c)
What describes the precipitation, wind and temperature over a period of hours and days?
Climate
Weather
Atmosphere

9. QUICK CHECK IN Use your cards: (a, b, c)
What describes the temperature, precipitation and wind over a long period of time?
Climate
Weather
Atmosphere

10. QUICK CHECK IN Use your cards: (a, b, c)
A mixture of gases encompassing the earth that provides air we breathe and protection from UV rays is the…
Climate
Weather
Atmosphere

11. Glacier
A large mass of slow moving ice, formed as successive snowfalls are compacted over time.

12. Calving
The act of an iceberg falling off the face of the glacier into the sea.

13. Carbon Dioxide
One of the primary gases that compose the atmosphere, produced during respiration of plants and animals, organic decomposition, and in the burning of fossil fuels; though naturally occurring in the atmosphere, increases in CO2 are linked to our rising global temperature

14. QUICK CHECK IN Use your cards: (a, b, c) What is carbon dioxide?
A gas created by the burning of fossil fuels
A gas that is not naturally occurring
A secondary gas

15. QUICK CHECK IN Use your cards: (a, b, c)
What describes the temperature, precipitation and wind over a long period of time?
Climate
Weather
Atmosphere

16. QUICK CHECK IN Use your cards: (a, b, c)
What is a large mass of slow moving ice?
Glacier
Calving
Atmosphere

17. Ice Cores
A cylindrical length of ice, obtained by drilling deep into ice sheets and glaciers. Similar to a tree ring, ice cores show yearly snow accumulation, and hold tiny air bubbles frozen in the ice that scientists use to understand the history of our climate

18. Glacial Retreat
The process by which glaciers melt at a faster rate than the snow can accumulate, resulting in a low of glacial ice

19. Climate Change
Changes to the global climate patterns as a result of increased CO2 in the atmosphere.

20. QUICK CHECK IN Use your cards: (a, b, c)
Why do scientists use ice cores to measure climate?
Because ice cores show yearly snow accumulation and hold tiny bubbles of air
Because ice cores show how cold it was a certain year
Because ice cores show daily evaporation patterns

21. EXIT TICKET
Explain how a change in climate can be measured by using at least two key vocabulary words as evidence to support your thinking.
Sentence starter:
A change in climate can be measured _________.
Do you have any confusions from today? Add a question if you need to!