Essentially we live on a water planet.
Water dramatically influences our weather especially in relation to storm development.
The sun serves as the engine that drives not only the water cycle but earth's weather as well. In this unit on weather, the students will be introduced to atmospheric physics, the three-cell theory, and will be given a review of latitude and longitude. Recall from the water cycle, that as the sun provides heat, evaporation occurs. The majority of the world's evaporation takes place over the oceans. Two processes, vertical motion of air and horizontal motion of air are put into action.