Georgia standard · Science

`SM2`Energy Transfer and Precipitation

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about energy transfer and its role in precipitation, cloud formation, and air mass formation.

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Expectations

SM2.a
Ask questions to compare and contrast the relationships between air masses, source regions, fronts, and the changes associated with frontal passage (e.g., air density, temperature, dew point, wind direction, cloud types, precipitation.)
SM2.b
Ask questions to identify major types of clouds and weather associated with each type. (Clarification statement: Cloud types should go beyond cirrus, stratus, and cumulus and may also include cirrostratus, altocumulus, cumulonimbus, etc.)
SM2.c
Construct an explanation of how clouds and different types of precipitation develop. (Clarification statement: The convective loop processes should be addressed here.)
SM2.d
Develop and use models to construct an explanation of the role that pressure differences have on energy transfer and the development of wind systems (e.g., sea breeze, land breeze, Hadley cells, Ferrel cells, prevailing winds, jet stream, ENSO, global scale winds). (Clarification statement: Inclusion of the Coriolis effect is appropriate at the global scale).

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