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Relevant reference tables:
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*[[Key to Weather Map Symbols| Key to Weather Map Symbols]]
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*[[Model of Generalized Planetary Wind Belts in the Troposphere| Model of Generalized Planetary Wind Belts in the Troposphere]]
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*[[Cross Section Model of Earth's Lower Atmosphere| Cross Section Model of Earth's Lower Atmosphere]]
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== Vocabulary ==
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Terms from the [[Earth & Space Science Glossary]] that come from this standard or from the released exam questions that assess it.
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<div class="vocab-subhead">From this standard</div>
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* air masses
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* circulation patterns
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* density
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* Earth’s surface
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* forecast models
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* frontal boundaries
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* high and low pressure systems
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* mass
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* model
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* observations
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* prevailing global winds
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* radar
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* satellite images
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* station models
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* surface weather maps
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* uneven heating
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* weather conditions
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* weather patterns
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<div class="vocab-subhead">From released exam questions</div>
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* [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q4|absorption]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q2|air mass source region]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q1|atmosphere]] – June 2026, [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q1|Aug 2025]]
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* [[Questions:Lake Nyos#q1|atmospheric pressure]] – June 2026, [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q5|Aug 2025]]
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* [[Questions:Lake Nyos#q1|carbon dioxide]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q4|cold front]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash#q1|composition]] – Jan 2026
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q2|continental antarctic (cAA)]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q2|continental arctic (cA)]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q2|continental polar (cP)]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q2|continental tropical (cT)]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q1|drinking water]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash#q1|Earth]] – Jan 2026
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* [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q4|electromagnetic radiation]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash#q1|Equator]] – Jan 2026
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* [[Questions:Canary Islands Hotspot#q4|Ferrel Cell]] – Aug 2026
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* [[Questions:Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash#q1|greenhouse gases]] – Jan 2026
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* [[Questions:Canary Islands Hotspot#q4|Hadley Cell]] – Aug 2026
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q1|horse latitudes]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Lake Nyos#q1|humidity]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:The Gulf#q5|hurricanes]] – Aug 2026, [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q4|Aug 2025]]
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* [[Questions:Canary Islands Hotspot#q4|Intertropical Convergence Zone]] – Aug 2026
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* [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q3|isobars]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q2|isotherms]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Canary Islands Hotspot#q4|jet stream]] – Aug 2026, [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q1|June 2026]]
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* [[Questions:Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash#q1|landfall]] – Jan 2026, [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q4|Aug 2025]]
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q1|latitude]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Lake Nyos#q1|livestock]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Lake Nyos#q1|magma]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q2|maritime equatorial (mE)]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q2|maritime polar (mP)]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q2|maritime tropical (mT)]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q4|meteorologist]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash#q1|mitigate]] – Jan 2026
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* [[Questions:Lake Nyos#q1|mountain]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q1|Northern Hemisphere]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:The Gulf#q5|ocean]] – Aug 2026, [[Questions:Lake Nyos#q1|June 2026]], [[Questions:Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash#q1|Jan 2026]], [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q4|Aug 2025]]
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* [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q4|ocean circulation]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash#q1|ocean currents]] – Jan 2026
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* [[Questions:Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash#q1|ocean gyres]] – Jan 2026
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* [[Questions:Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’pai Volcano#q3|planetary wind]] – Aug 2026, [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q1|Aug 2025]]
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* [[Questions:Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash#q1|plastic pollution]] – Jan 2026
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* [[Questions:Canary Islands Hotspot#q4|Polar Cell]] – Aug 2026
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* [[Questions:Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’pai Volcano#q3|Polar Easterlies]] – Aug 2026
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* [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q1|polar vortex]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q1|precipitation]] – June 2026, [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q1|Aug 2025]]
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q2|prevailing westerlies]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event#q4|reflection]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:The Gulf#q5|sea level rise]] – Aug 2026
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q4|steering flow]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q4|storm track]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash#q2|stratosphere]] – Jan 2026
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q2|trade winds]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q5|tropical storm]] – Aug 2025
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* [[Questions:Canary Islands Hotspot#q4|troposphere]] – Aug 2026
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* [[Questions:Lake Nyos#q1|valleys]] – June 2026
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* [[Questions:Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’pai Volcano#q3|volcano]] – Aug 2026, [[Questions:Lake Nyos#q1|June 2026]]
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* [[Questions:Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’pai Volcano#q3|water vapor]] – Aug 2026
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* [[Questions:Horse Latitudes#q5|wind speed]] – Aug 2025
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Latest revision as of 19:17, 27 September 2026

← HS-ESS2-4
HS-ESS3-5 →

Evaluate data and communicate information to explain how the movement and interactions of air masses result in changes in weather conditions.

Clarification statement: Examples of evidence sources could include station models, surface weather maps, satellite images, radar, and accepted forecast models. Emphasis should focus on communicating how the uneven heating of Earth’s surface and prevailing global winds drive the movement of air masses and their corresponding circulation patterns, the interaction of different air masses at frontal boundaries, and resulting weather phenomena.

Assessment boundary: Analysis is limited to surface weather maps and general weather patterns associated with high and low pressure systems.

Reference Tables

Relevant reference tables:


Assessment

What assessment of HS-ESS2-8 might look like on a NY state exam.

Exam Cluster Question
August 2026 Canary Islands Hotspot Question 13
The Gulf Question 37
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’pai Volcano Question 44
June 2026 Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event Question 14
Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event Question 15
Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event Question 16
Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event Question 17
Conditions of a Polar Vortex Event Question 18
Lake Nyos Question 32
January 2026 Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash Question 6
Rubber Ducks and Pacific Ocean Trash Question 7
August 2025 Horse Latitudes Question 16
Horse Latitudes Question 17
Horse Latitudes Question 18
Horse Latitudes Question 19
Horse Latitudes Question 20

Performance Level Descriptions

PLDs communicate the knowledge and skills expected of students to demonstrate proficiency in each Learning Standard. NYS assessments classify student performance into one of five levels.

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Level 1: Use data and/or patterns of movement and interactions of air masses to identify the resulting changes in weather conditions or identify one factor that drives the movement of air masses or from those provided, use evidence from maps to account for weather conditions or given weather conditions, identify evidence found on maps that account for one of these conditions.
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Level 2: Use data to identify the patterns of movement or the interactions of air masses and the resulting changes in weather conditions or to identify factors that drive the movement of air masses or from given weather conditions, identify evidence from maps that supports these conditions.
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Level 3: Evaluate data and communicate information to identify the patterns of movement and/or interactions of air masses and/or the resulting changes in weather conditions.
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Level 4: Evaluate data and communicate information to explain how the movement and interactions of air masses result in changes in weather conditions.
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Level 5: Collect and analyze global and regional weather data using tools, technologies, and/or models, to communicate in multiple formats how the movement and interactions of air masses result in changes in weather conditions.

Vocabulary

Terms from the Earth & Space Science Glossary that come from this standard or from the released exam questions that assess it.

From this standard
  • air masses
  • circulation patterns
  • density
  • Earth’s surface
  • forecast models
  • frontal boundaries
  • high and low pressure systems
  • mass
  • model
  • observations
  • prevailing global winds
  • radar
  • satellite images
  • station models
  • surface weather maps
  • uneven heating
  • weather conditions
  • weather patterns
From released exam questions

NGSS Dimensions

Performance expectation HS-ESS2-8 was developed using the following elements from the NRC document A Framework for K-12 Science Education:

Science and Engineering Practices
  • Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information: Communicate scientific ideas (e.g., about phenomena and/or the process of development and the design and performance of a proposed process or system) in multiple formats (including orally, graphically, textually, and mathematically).
Disciplinary Core Ideas
  • Weather and climate: Concepts of density and heat energy can be used to explain observations of weather patterns.
Crosscutting Concepts
  • Patterns: Different patterns may be observed at each of the scales at which a system is studied and can provide evidence for causality in explanations of phenomena.
  • Patterns: Empirical evidence is needed to identify patterns.
Page contributors: Conrad Richman, Caroline Leonard
Earth and Space Science | HS. Weather and Climate
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