INSTITUTO BILINGÜE STANFORD

ENGLISH HOMEWORK
JANUARY 25., 2009
8th. GRADE

Ilse Susana González Gómez January 24, 2010

Vocabulary

1. Swirling: to move around or along with a whirling motion

2. Sleet: precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain
as it fall
3. Hail: recipitation in the form of spherical or irregular pellets of ice larger than
5 millimeters
4. Fog: a cloudlike mass or layer of minute water droplets or ice crystals near
the surface of the earth, appreciably reducing visibility.
5. Moisture: condensed or diffused liquid, esp. water: moisture in the air.
6. Balmy: mild and refreshing; soft; soothing: balmy weather.
1.   A large pocket of air that has the 2.   Which instrument measures air
same pressure and amount of pressure:
moisture is called a(n)   Weather vane
  Rain gauge
Air masses   Barometer
  Anemometer
3.   What is an isobar? 4.   When isobars are drawn close
together, the winds along them are
Maps with lines used in the calm.
weather cast   False
  True
5.   How does wind move? 6.   Low pressure brings which type of
  From low pressure to high weather?
pressure   Balmy
  Along mountain ranges   Winter
  From high pressure to low   Stormy
pressure   Dull
  From east to west
7.   Name two instruments that 8.   What is the name of the layer in our
meteorologists use to predict the atmosphere where our weather
weather. Bonus: Tell what occurs?
information is gathered from the
instruments. atmosphere

Barometers & anemometers

 Find each of the following words.

SURFACE HIGH-PRESSURE HAIL ISOBAR

DETERMINE FLOW GLOBE TROPOSPHERE
THUNDER LOW-PRESSURE METEOROLOGISTS INFORMATION
RECORD EQUAL GATHERING CONTAIN

H S T H U N D E R U U O A R I N G B S L O R R I R E
I F L I W A G A T H E R I N G A Y S O T U E R P O B
G R E E C E F R U S P C F I Q A C A R A B O S I A E
H G R N S C E S E E A O P S O S I O T M M T I M R H
- D T R I N O R E C R M I S U O I S N H G L O B E T
P U E A O R C I R M A L S R E R G O R T U E R U P I
R N C T N U E Q A C S F C E L E E Q A L A K H S Q A
E I E A E N F T O E R E R E N N T I E F O I I T I G
S N T Q R R I U E S P I A U D S S E R N E I N S R N
S O N C U O M U - D P U - O S S S R E E O G G I S E
U R E E N A D I L R E D N U H T F U H N A I C G F E
R M B E N I L L N I O I R S E L S S P T B O O O I E
E A E H S E I N D E A W O N C Y H S S B R P I L N O
I T E S U O F H R W E H T O P A E E O D O H H O O W
O O H T R I I N O H O O E A E H G R P R P G I R T A
E I R R O T D R C P G L A B E W O P O E I S T E E O
G N S T B I E R E H P S O P A R T - R I S H U O R R
O R I R U S S E R P - W O L D R H W T O O D B T A I
G S G A T H I R I N G F L O W R O O U N B R S E R U
P S T S I G O L O R O E T E M O S L I S A S H M R I
H S N O T I B I P M Q H U T R D I H P T E N R O O S