6th Grade Bellwork
10/16/15:
10/25/16: Write the question and your answer (not just
the letter) on your green bellwork sheet.
1. What source of energy drives the water cycle?
a. Wind
c. Moisture
b. Sunlight
d. Cold air
2. What role does evaporation play in the water cycle?
a. It heats earth.
b. It moves water from Earth’s surface into the
atmosphere.
c. it forms precipitation
d. It moves water from Earth’s surface to the
ground.
3. What is the process in which water vapor changes to
liquid water?
a. Transpiration
c. surface water flow
b. Precipitation
d. condensation
10/26/16
1. What Earth systems does water move through?
2. What is it called when water moves into the
atmosphere through a plant’s leaves?
11/3/16
1. In what two ways does the atmosphere protect life on
Earth.
11/4/16
1. What layer is the ozone layer in?
2. What is air pressure?
3. What happens to pressure as altitude increases?
11/7/16
1. The atmosphere is divided into layers based on
________________.
2. What would the day and night temperatures be without
the atmosphere?
3. Temperature ____________ with altitude in the
troposphere.
4. Temperature ____________ with altitude in the
stratosphere.
11/8/16:
1. Where does the energy that warms the Earth come from?
2. What types of energy transfer happen in the atmosphere?
11/9/16:
1. Ninety-nine percent of the radiation from the Sun consists
of_____________, _____________, and ___________. But
most of that radiation is ____________________ .
2. All types of radiation are types of _____________.
11/10/16:
1. Which gas is most abundant in the atmosphere?
2. Which method of energy transfer is responsible for cloud
formation?
11/14/16
Complete Today’s Planner
1. The amount energy from the Sun’s incoming radiation is
equal to the amount that is lost to space. What is this
principle called?
2. (Stable/unstable) air is when warm air rises and created
thunderstorms.