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JEOPARDY

• Severe Weather and Erosion

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Tornado
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Erosion
Severe Weather
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Category 1 100

• What temperature does water need to be in order
  for a hurricane to form?

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Category 1 100

• 80F or warmer

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Category 1 200

• Where do hurricanes typically form?

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• 5 to 15 degrees latitude north and south of the
  equator.

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Category 1 300

• What is the hurricane season for the Atlantic
  Ocean?

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Category 1 300

• from June 1 to November 30.

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Category 1 400

• What is the minimum wind speed for a hurricane?

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Category 1 400

• 74 mph or
• 120km/h

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Category 1 500

• How are hurricanes categorized?

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Category 1 500

• By wind speed

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Category 2 100

• How are tornadoes categorized?

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Category 2 100

• By damage caused

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Category 2 200

• What should you do if a tornado occurs during
  school?

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Category 2 200

• Crouch down on your knees and protect your head
  with your arms.

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Category 2 300

• How many categories of tornadoes are there?

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Category 2 300

• 6

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Category 2 400

• an electronic instrument, which determines the
  direction and distance of objects that reflect
  radio energy back

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• radar

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Category 2 500

• The change in the frequency of sound

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• Doppler effect

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Category 3 100

• the process that breaks down rocks into smaller
  and smaller fragments.

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• weathering

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Category 3 200

• List two types of mechanical weathering

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Category 3 200

• Plants
• Ice wedging

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Category 3 300

• List two types of chemical weathering

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• Oxidation
• Carbonic acid
• Water
• Plant acids

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Category 3 400

• What factors affect soil formation?

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• Time
• Climate
• Parent rock
• Topography
• Organisms

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Category 3 500

• Which type of weathering occurs most often in
  warm, wet climates?

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• Chemical weathering

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Category 4 100

• erosion of land by wind

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Category 4 100

• deflation

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Category 4 200

• What is the name of the hurricane scale?

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Category 4 200

• Saffir-simpson

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Category 4 300

• Mass movement is when gravity pulls rock or
  sediment down slopes.
• List and explain two types of mass movement

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Category 4 300

• Slump when loose materials or rock layers slip
  down a slope leaving a curved scar.
• Creep the way sediments slowly inch their way
  down a hill.
• Rock Slides layers of rock break loose from
  slopes and slide to the bottom.
• Mudflows wet sediment flows downhill over the
  ground surface.

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Category 4 400

• forms pits in rocks or polishes surfaces smooth
  as sediments are blown by strong winds

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• abrasion

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Category 4 500

• List two types of acids that affect chemical
  weathering

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Category 4 500

• Carbonic acid
• Tannic acid

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Category 5 100

• List one way that wildfires can be put out

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Category 5 100

• Hot shots
• Sky jello
• Pulaski

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Category 5 200

• occurs when waters rise rapidly with no warning
  within several hours of an intense rain.
• Is the number one weather-related killer?
• Most deaths are auto-related

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Category 5 200

• Flash floods

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Category 5 300

• measures the changes in the frequency of the
  signal it receives to determine the wind.

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• Doppler radar

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Category 5 400

• are hot, dry winds that aggravate the fire danger
  in forests
• and bush lands.

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Category 5 400

• Santa Ana Winds

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Category 5 500

• How many fires are caused by people?

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• more than four out of every five wildfires are
  caused by people.