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These correlations are for older materials. They do not cover the materials adopted in 2006.
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Concept Statement: Show Concept Overview
4 Energy from the Sun heats Earth unevenly, causing air movements that result in changing weather patterns.


Over-All Rating: Moderate coverage of this concept.
Text includes many extraneous concepts and terms that are in neither the Standards nor the Framework. These extraneous concepts and terms are often highlighted, and might give the mistaken impression that they are important for teaching the standard. An earlier printing of this text includes error-filled correlations of the text with the standards.

Features that help student learning:
Text provides in-depth coverage of three of the five standards (4a, 4c, and 4d).


Features that do not help student learning:
Coverage is limited with respect to the influence the ocean has on weather (Standard 4b). Text does not describe that at any point Earth's atmosphere exerts pressure equally in all directions (Standard 4e).


Ratings for Standards - McGraw Hill:
4 Energy from the Sun heats Earth unevenly, causing air movements that result in changing weather patterns. Moderate   
4a Students know uneven heating of Earth causes air movements (convection currents). In-Depth   
4b Students know the influence that the ocean has on the weather and the role that the water cycle plays in weather patterns. Moderate   
4c Students know the causes and effects of different types of severe weather. In-Depth   
4d Students know how to use weather maps and data to predict local weather and know that weather forecasts depend on many variables. In-Depth   
4e Students know that the Earth's atmosphere exerts a pressure that decreases with distance above Earth's surface and that at any point it exerts this pressure equally in all directions. Limited   
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