Thursday, January 16, 2014

Updates finished for tonight.  Some new items are shown below in red.
Bring in two #2 pencils for Mid Term Exam on Friday Jan. 17

Homework tonight: Review your District Study Guide (answers below)

Weather and atmosphere

Weather is conditions happening at a short time and small place. 
PrecipitationAny form of water that falls from the sky. Ex: rain, snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain. 
Condensation –change in state from gas to liquid, or the droplets of liquid formed from this process.

Condense    Act of condensing

Evaporation  Change in state from a liquid to a gas.

Evaporate  Act of evaporating 
*Gas – has no definite volume or shape 
Liquid - has no definite shape but does have a definite volume . 
Solid - has definite volume and shape  
*Phase change – change of state; where substance changes from one state to another.  Ex: melting, freezing

Humidity –  amount of water vapor in the air.

Air pressureforce of air on surfaces, caused by the weight the air above us. At sea level, air pressure is 14.7 lbs./in. Air Pressure decreases as altitude increases. Formula is: P= F/A

Air mass – large body of air with same temperature, pressure, humidity throughout.

Global Wind  -    moving air that lasts long and covers great distances.

Land Breeze – warm air rises off the water, then cool air from over the land rushes in to its place.  SEE the LINK: .illustration of Land Breeze (you can also find an image of a Sea breeze, but you must scroll down)
 Sea breeze - cooler air moves from over the water to over the land.
* Front - boundary or leading edge, where a cold or warm air mass meets another air mass of a different temperature. 
* Water Cycle - movement of water through air, land, waterways, and living things whch includes the evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection segments.   
* Anemometer - instrument that measures wind speed.

* Thermometer - instrument that measures temperature.  
                            Remember: water freezes at 32oF or 0oC.
AQs: 

What is the difference between weather and climate?

    Weather is the short term conditions in the atmosphere and climate is long term (30 years) conditions of temperature and precipitation.

What causes wind?

    Uneven heating (which causes differences in air pressure, which causes winds).

What are the atmospheric gases?

     Nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), argon, CO2, water vapor

Describe the layers of the atmosphere:

    Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere.

Describe the different types of climate:

     Polar, severe, highland, tropical , mild, and dry.

How do you read a weather map and its symbols?

Warm front, cold front, high pressure, low pressure
What weather symbols do we see here? 

SMS: Key Vocabulary

Mass – amount of matter in an object (g)

Volume -  amount of space that something takes up (cm3, mL, Liters, )

Density – amount of matter per unit volume

     D = m/v   50 g   25 mL  = 2 g/mL

DisplacementVfinalVinitial = displacement (the amount of water displaced equals the volume of the object submerged in the water.

Mixtures – combination of materials that are physically combined

Toxic - poisonous

Flammable – catches on fire easily

Corrosive – reacts with a solid- destroy clothes, metals, etc.
How do you measure mass? 
  Triple Beam Balance 

What methods can be used to separate mixtures?

    Use filters, screens, forceps, magnets, dropper, or evaporation

  How do you calculate volume?
    2 ways: Measurement or displacement

a) Measurement method:

         V = L x W x H 

           ex: 4 cm x 2 cm x 3 cm = 16 cm3

b) Displacement method: to find the volume of an irregular object, drop it in water and subtract your starting volume from your final volume:

            VfinalVinitial = V
* How do you calculate density?
     D = m/v  so if this cube’s mass is 32 g, then
           m/v = 32 g/ 16 cm3 = 2 g/cm3
Luster  shine
Conductivity  how well a material allows electricity (or heat) to pass through.

What are examples of chemical and physical properties?
a) Physical properties can be observed or measured about an object without changing it into something else. Ex: color, texture, appearance, density, melting and boiling points, hardness, odor.
b) Chemical properties: to find out a substance’s chemical properties, you must react it with another substance, to see if it make a new substance. Ex: burning, rusting, corroding, flammability, reaction with acid or base, reaction with oxygen or water.

Periodic Table - Arrangement of elements into a table based on properties (atomic number).

Atom - the smallest particle of an element; each element is made up of atoms that are unique to that element. Atoms are the building blocks of all matter.

Atomic Number - the number of protons in each atom of an element.

Element - substance that can not be broken down into simpler substances by heating it or causing it to react with other chemicals. An element is made up of many atoms, all of the same type.


Compound - pure substances. They are made up of molecules. Molecules are atoms combined in a certain ratio. Ex: H2O, CO2.

What are similarities and differences between elements and compounds?

*similarities - both are pure forms of matter, made up only one kind of particles.
         *differences- elements are made of atoms, compounds are made of molecules. Atoms cannot be chemically broken down into any simpler substances, but compounds can be broken down into elements through chemical reaction.

Dilution - add water to a solution.

Concentration - a measure of how much solute is dissolved in a solution.

Density - mass per unit of volume. The density of water is 1 g/cm3

Solution - mixture in which one substance is evenly dissolved in another.

How do you make a serial dilution? Add 9 drops of water to one drop of solution. Then take 1 drop of the diluted solution, put it in another cup, add 9 drops of water. From this cup, put 1 drop of diluted solution into a 3rd cup and add 9 drops of water. Continue to dilute through a whole series of cups until the solution has been diluted to a very small concentration.

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