Meteorology e-Notebook

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2. No food or drink while using school laptops!3. Add and complete all assignments and add to

the table of contents. Add pages as needed4. Do your own work honestly and write your

summary/questions in your notebook/journal everyday.

Table of Contents1. Title page2. Instructions3. Table of contents4. Big questions/Big

ideas5. 6. 7. 8.

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BIG IDEAS/BIG QUESTIONS

• Put each idea/question in it’s own text box

Assignments 1: EEn.2.5.1 Summarize the structure and composition of our atmosphere.Summarize information from charts and graphs regarding layers of the atmosphere, temperature, chemical composition, and interaction with radiant energy.View the graphics on the next 3 pages and answer the questions on the same page

1. Which layer does weather occur in?

2. Which layer do meteors burn up in?

3. Which layer has both satellites and polar lights ?

Composition of the layers1. Ozone is O3 , Which layer

contains the ozone layer?

2. What gases are present in the layer that surrounds us?

3. The red line is the temperature. What happens at the division between layers?

1. What is the approximate temperature at the bottom of the mesosphere?

2. Top of the mesosphere?

Composition of the Atmosphereresearch these

1. How much of the dry atmosphere(air) is oxygen O2 ?

2. How much of the dry atmosphere is CO2 ?

3. What is the most common molecule in the dry atmosphere and what percentage is it?

4. What other gases are in the air?

Copy and paste a pie chart of the composition of the atmosphere

Water in the atmosphere

1. What percentage of air is water vapor?

2. Why do clouds float?

So why is water important?It is responsible for most of the atmospheric

process like weather. More on this later.

The Sun’s Radiation and the Earth’s Atmosphere

1. The Sun emits energy as electromagnetic radiation (remember this from astronomy?)

2. Electromagnetic radiation has waves of different_______________– from very short gamma rays to long radio waves. We are going to be concerned about a set in the middle – _____________________________ _____________________________________

3. Radiant Energy can travel through the _________ (nothingness) of space.

Three Things Happen to the Sun’s Radiation when it hits the Atmosphere

1. Reflection1. including scattering

2. Transmission to the Earth’s surface3. AbsorptionDefine these in your e-notebook

Reflection

_____________ of the Sun’s radiation is reflected back into space.

Clouds reflect most of that ______________The atmosphere back scatters about ______ and

The land and water reflect back about ______.

Reflection

• The radiation is _____________ into space.

• Insert arrows in picture.

Scattering

• This is why we can see in shadows

This is why our sky is ______ during the day and red at sunset.

What color of light do oxygen and nitrogen scatter?

Transmission

• Like light through a window, the radiation goes through the atmosphere.

• Add a picture of light shining through something – clouds windows