1

Climate and Weather:• S6E4. Students will understand how the

distribution of land and oceans affects climate and weather.

• a. Demonstrate that land and water absorb and lose heat at different rates and explain the resulting effects on weather patterns.

• b. Relate unequal heating of land and water surfaces to form large global wind systems and weather events such as tornados and thunderstorms.

• c. Relate how moisture evaporating from the oceans affects the weather patterns and weather events such as hurricanes.

2

Essential Questions:• How does unequal heating of land and water

affect weather patterns?• How do differences in air pressure cause land

and sea breezes?• How does the sun’s heating of water in the

tropics affect climate the world’s climate• How does moisture evaporating from the oceans

help to create hurricanes?• What is the Coriolis Effect? • How does the Coriolis Effect influence wind and

water movement?

3

Vocabulary• Atmosphere• Ari pressure• Wind• Global/Local winds• Land/Sea breeze• Coriolis effect• Air mass(Continental/Maritime/Tropical/Polar)• Front (Warm, cold, stationary, occluded)• Hurricane, tornado, thunderstorm, lightning• Greenhouse effect• Global Warming• Radiation/Conduction/Convection• Relative Humidity• Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulus

4