PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE: PASSPORT TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE

Video 1: What Makes Earth's Weather and Climate?

How do the Sun, seasons, land, ocean, pressure, and altitude shape clouds, storms, hurricanes and tornadoes? This video examines the fundamental components of weather and climate-temperature, pressure, and air in motion.

"Sun and Seasons" uses satellite images showing day and night, as well as footage from the Equator and the poles, deserts, and mountains, to help illustrate the Sun-Earth relationship.

"Ocean, Atmosphere, and Land" examines how sea and land both heat and cool at different rates, and how this differential heating results in changes in pressure and temperature in the surrounding air.

"Water-Solid, Liquid, Gas" looks at water as the primary fuel of Earth's weather (carrying heat from region to region) and, in its vertical motions as water vapor in convective clouds, producing storms and other severe weather conditions.

Through the video and related activities your students will:

Identify why the Sun is the primary force driving Earth's weather through the differential heating of land and ocean masses.

Be able to demonstrate how land and ocean, and light and dark colors, conduct heat and cool at different rates.

Describe the different states of water, and relate these changes of state to effects on weather and climate.

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