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Sun/ Seasons 2
Predict Weather/ Climate 6
Water in Atmos- phere 4
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Final Jeopardy Question
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Category 1 500 pts
Name the four layers of the atmosphere in order
from Earth to space and name the layer that is
the hottest.
Troposphere Stratosphere Mesosphere Thermosphere T
he hottest layer is the thermosphere.
1. 2. 3. 4.
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Category 1 400 pts
What do plants need from the air for
photosynthesis and what do animals need from the
air to breathe?
Plants need carbon dioxide Animals need oxygen
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Category 1 300 pts
What is the protective boundary between Earth and
space? As altitude increases, what happens to the
density of the air and the air pressure?
Atmosphere protects the Earth from
space. Density decreases and air pressure
decreases as altitude increases.
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Category 1 200 pts
In which layer does weather take place? Where is
the ozone layer located?
Weather takes place in the troposphere The ozone
layer is in the upper stratosphere
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Category 1 100 pts
What is the composition of Earths dry air?
78 nitrogen 21 oxygen 1 other gases
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Category 2 500 pts
What are the three ways that energy is
transferred within the troposphere?
Radiation Convection conduction
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Category 2 400 pts
What is a revolution? And how long does it take?
Earths complete orbit around the sun is a
revolution. It takes a year.
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Category 2 300 pts
Which region(s) are cooler than the
equator? What is a rotation? And how long does
it take?
Polar zone and temperate zone
Rotation is the spinning of a planet on its
axis. It takes Earth 24 hours
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Category 2 200 pts
What creates the seasons?
Tilt of Earths axis
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Category 2 100 pts
What occurs when the sun is directly overhead at
noon at latitude 23.5 N and 23.5 S?
solstice
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Category 3 500 pts
List the four Global winds.
Westerlies Trade winds Polar easterlies Doldrums
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Category 3 400 pts
Name the three basic cloud forms.
Stratus Cumulus cirrus
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Category 3 300 pts
What is wind?
Wind is air blowing from an area of high pressure
to an area of low pressure
About how much of the solar energy is absorbed by
Earth?
50
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Category 3 200 pts
Daily Double
What is the main way in which Earths atmosphere
is heated?
Energy reradiated by Earths surface.
A daily breeze that occurs in a city that is
located near a large body of water is an example
of _____________________.
Local winds
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Category 3 100 pts
What is a belt of high-speed wind in the upper
troposphere called?
A jet stream
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Category 4 500 pts

• What type of clouds are the following
• Flat layers that cover much or all of the sky and
  produces rain
• White puffy clouds that are more vertical. They
  have a flat base and a billowing tower rising
  above. Sometimes called thunderheads.
• White, wispy clouds often with a feathery or
  veil-like appearance. Often appear before rain
  forming clouds.

nimbostratus
cumulonimbus
cirrostratus
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Category 4 400 pts
Rain Sleet and snow are types of __________.
precipitation
The shape and size of snowflakes depends on the
______________ at which it forms.
temperature
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Category 4 300 pts
What is a cloud?
A visible mass of tiny water droplets and ice
crystals
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Category 4 200 pts
How large must ice be to be classified as hail?
5 millimeters
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Category 4 100 pts
Which air masses have more moisture? Air masses
formed over water or air masses formed over land?
Over water
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Category 5 500 pts

• Where would a maritime tropical air mass form
  that affects weather in the U.S?
• Which air mass forms over land north of the 50
  north latitude?
• How does a cold front form?

The Gulf of Mexico
Continental polar
A cold air mass collides with a warm air mass and
pushes the warm air up.
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Category 5 400 pts

• What is the sharply defined boundary that forms
  where two unlike air masses meet?
• What is a topical storm with sustained winds of
  at least 119 Km/hr?
• What is a small intense storm formed when a
  vertical cylinder of rotating air develops?

front
hurricane
tornado
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Category 5 300 pts

• What weather system has the following
• Air spirals away from the center
• Has a center of high pressure
• Turns clockwise winds in the Northern Hemisphere
• Is generally associated with clear weather

anticyclone
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Category 5 200 pts
The pressure at the center of a cyclone is
_______.
low
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Category 5 100 pts
What is a major type of storm associated with
lightning, strong winds, and heavy rain or hail?
thunderstorm
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Category 6 500 pts
Cold front
1. 2. 3. 4.
Stationary Front
Warm front
Occluded front
What does each symbol represent?
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Category 6 400 pts
What three factors affect a regions temperature?

1. Latitude and altitude
2. Distance from large bodies of water
3. Ocean currents

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Category 6 300 pts
What is a description of the pattern of weather
over many years? What is an example of a
long-term climate change that occurs
naturally? What is a climate change that may be
caused by human activities?
climate
Ice age
Global warming
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Category 6 200 pts
What are the two main factors that determine a
regions climate? What is a short-term
variation in climate that is caused by a change
in the normal direction of winds, which causes
ocean currents to shift direction?
Temperature and precipitation
El Nino
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Category 6 100 pts
Doppler radar

• _______________ works by bouncing radio waves off
  particles of precipitation in moving storms and
  then measuring the frequency of the waves the
  return.
• What are lines on a weather map that connect
  points that have the same air temperature?

isotherms
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Final Jeopardy
This question is about zones. Write down the
number of points that you want to risk.

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• List all of the zones in correct order from North
  Pole to south pole and give the range of latitude
  for each.

Polar 66.5 N to 90 N Temperate 23.5 N 66.5
N Tropic 23.5 N to 23.5 S Temperate 23.5 S
to 66.5 S Polar 66.5 S to 90 S
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