ANNOUNCEMENTS and ANSWER KEY

Week 7


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ANNOUNCEMENTS - Week 7

27 October 2000

  1. According to reports we have received, participants are very enthusiastic about the course. We understand that many are already promoting weather in their schools and areas. We ask that in your weekly mentoring interactions with participants through the rest of the course, you focus on their Plans of Action to prepare for their weather education resource roles.

  2. The Fall semester of DataStreme is running with 620 enrollees and 4 non-credit precollege educators via 83 LITs in 46 states. Our compliments to you for such a fine effort.


WEEK 7 ANSWER KEY

A. CHAPTER PROGRESS:

  1. under
  2. more
  3. unstable
  4. updrafts
  5. ice crystals
  6. precipitation
  7. rain drop
  8. unsaturated
  9. downwind . . (the responses are strictly more accurate to the "lee-wave" cloud, the intent was to cover mountain-induced cloud-formation mechanisms)
  10. supercooled
  11. 2 inches
  12. hail
  13. - 15. [as appropriate by participant]

B. DAILY SUMMARY:

Tuesday:
1. upward
2. faster
Thursday:
1. along
2. temperature

ACTIVITIES RESPONSE

ACTIVITY 7A:

  1. denser than, . . increases
  2. expands, . . cools
  3. increases, . . 100%
  4. cumulus
  5. western
  6. no answer needed
  7. 60 km, . . 3
  8. east or southeast, . . east
  9. closely related (covers a streak over which cell has passed with greater values where most total precipitation accumulated - suggests rainfall got heavier in hour from 3 to 4)
  10. clockwise and outward
  11. southeast, . . warm, maritime
  12. upward, . . mostly cloudy or overcast
  13. southeastern Texas to Nebraska and Missouri, . . Low
  14. south or southeast, . . rising, . . more
  15. rain, . . higher, . . was, . . equal to, . . fog
  16. eastward, . . stationary, . . southward
  17. all of these locations
  18. did, . . flooding

ACTIVITY 7B:

  1. the same, . . different
  2. position 3, see Key image 1.
  3. positions 1 and 5
  4. toward: position 2, . . away: position 4
  5. all statements are True
  6. no answer needed
  7. southwest to northeast
  8. 254 - 332 km/hr (158 - 206 mi/hr)
  9. away from, . . toward
  10. counterclockwise, . . same
  11. perpendicular, . . was

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